The story of an entrepreneur with severe hemophilia shows how consciously overcoming pain, suffering, and difficulty builds empathetic leadership and discipline based on growth and innovation.
When I posted my product on producthunt (and that was about 5 years ago) I got dozens of props with a first place guarantee.
Literally an hour after posting, I was bombarded with messages. Now it's probably even worse.
Over the course of seven months, I conducted more than 50 interviews with top-level managers, mainly CEO (chief executive officer), CTO (chief technology officer), CFO (chief financial officer), COO (chief operating officer) and CIO (chief innovation/IT officer), from countries such as Poland, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Sweden. These meetings gave me the opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives on the onset of the crisis in the markets, especially in the IT and high-tech industry, and to learn about the current situation in companies. The following transcripts are based on these reflections and the data collected.
In relationships with other people, especially those closest to us, we often encounter situations where their words seem hurtful. Honesty that is perceived as unfair and harsh can be difficult to accept and is therefore automatically rejected. However, only people who know the other person well and care about his or her wellbeing are able to make comments that are difficult to hear but necessary for his or her development. Provided, of course, that they do so with empathy, respect, reverence and sincerity.
According to a Gallup survey, only 26% of employees believe that the feedback they receive helps them to do a better job. This is because appraisals and development discussions often lack the ‘tough’ content that would be helpful for their development.
Research from the Harvard Business Review supports this. They report that while 72% of employees consider leaders providing critical feedback to be important for their development, only 5% of them believe that their managers actually share such feedback with them.
Most noteworthy IT companies in Poland are affiliated with the Software Development Association (SODA). You can find members on the website: https://sodapl.com/en/members/. There are a lot of them.
I personally know of:
- Transition Technology - https://ttpsc.com - huge organization, I don't know if they will want to work with someone small;
- As the McKinsey report shows, it is estimated that between 400 and 800 million workers worldwide will have to change jobs by 2030 due to automation. Technical skills are dying out faster and faster, with some experts even estimating their lifespan to be just a few years.
- 57% of senior managers say that social skills are more important than technical skills.
- For example, being a software engineer is not just about delivering the code itself. It is a complex and intricate role where you have to look at millions of different contexts and be able to bring them together. In the main, it is based on empathy and understanding another human being in order to make the process you want to improve useful.
- 86% of employees and managers cite a lack of effective collaboration and communication as the main reasons for failure in the workplace,
- 74% of employees feel that they lack good communication within the company,
- 80% of US employees report feeling stressed due to ineffective communication,
- 28% of employees feel that poor communication is the cause of their inability to get work done by a certain date,
- according to a report by David Grossman (involving 400 large companies and 100,000 employees), it is estimated that the cost of communication barriers in the workplace is $62.4 million per company per year.
This is an article written by a friend of mine from Poland. I enjoy reading his blog. Sometimes he translates texts that he mainly writes in polish.
7 goals:
- People come first and should be at the heart of the business
- Areas of responsibility are better than delegation
- Support structure as a culture necessary for an organisation to thrive
- Enterprise processes the solution to many ills
- Development paths that value knowledge, experience and skills
- Self-directed employee development is the future of organisations
- Transparent meetings and speaking to the whole company have many benefits
A new discussion on net neutrality issues has recently begun in Brussels.
Since the authors of this report, the Startup Poland Foundation, represent Polish
startups in dialogue with local government and European institutions, the discussion
on proposed changes to the Open Internet Regulation, initiated by telecom companies
at the EU level, served as the impulse to study how it might affect startups. Naturally,
we wanted to consider this question in relation to Poland but also in other CEE
countries such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Romania.
It's not even so much that I want to do it as that I want to know whether it is possible. Personally, I think it's quite an important issue and we should be able to talk about it and make an informed decision.
Anyway, today on Hackernews there was a post about abandoning github because developer doesn't want Copilot to learn from his code.
I know a lot of people who are asking themselves the same question as me. How do not fed the GPT chat with my blog posts in the future. Suppose someone publishes unique data and want it to be available for humans, not machines.
In addition, we have something in the law like copyright and we should be able to decide whether our code, texts, graphics, can be copied and processed in someone else's software.
Yes and no. AI is not a human. It is a model, a tool, a software. I don't want my work to go into someone else's software. I think people who keep their open-source work on GitHub and feed the Copilot tool for free have the same problem.
It's not even that they are supposed to use some solutions without the approval of the IT department. The IT department could, for example, prepare some sandbox for people to play with. They can create separate systems and with their consent and approval people could "play" with ideas. I feel under the skin that there is huge room for innovation.
I read this article recently. It fell into my hands by accident and I found this quote there:
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Assuming that we should launch many pilot projects, let’s consider for which of them it is possible to build minimally viable products – and then try (where possible) to use low-code and no-code tools. With these, we can get less technical people prototyping quickly (of course, more complex integration pieces may still require the help of an engineer). Thanks to the fast implementation, managers or people responsible for the functioning of the process in the company are able (within a few weeks) to check and analyze the sense of an idea. They can test it in a natural environment, and if everything works, they can create a dedicated solution developed by an experienced team.
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One of my close friends, whom I advise in the field of digitization, owns a factory. I can't convince him for anything to try this approach, which I think is absolutely right.
The client believes that only their IT department and CTO can change anything in automation. Or only they can be responsible for data analysis. How to change this, how to convince him?