111. Why Critical Thinking is More Important Than Leadership
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Philip Howard
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's not that we don't suck. |
| 0:11.9 | It's that we just, we suck less than everybody else. |
| 0:15.0 | That's why we're better. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm pretty sure, you know, anybody who's ever dealt with me feels like I'm a hard ass. |
| 0:23.6 | But the gist of it is I hold people accountable. |
| 0:26.8 | Oh, I like that. |
| 0:27.6 | And when people give me an expectation, I hold them to that expectation. |
| 0:33.9 | It's not that, you know, I'm tough on people. |
| 0:36.4 | It's that I allow people to set expectations and they get upset when I hold them to that expectation. |
| 0:45.6 | On October 15th on our call, at 2 o'clock, you said that you are going to deliver a 99.99% SLA uptime, which means that if you don't deliver that, that I would be held to this. |
| 0:59.8 | And you also said that you were going to assign a project manager to me and that that person would be, would have a 24-hour turnaround time. |
| 1:06.4 | I've got two outages and five emails here that went for three days not being answered. |
| 1:11.1 | How do you explain yourself? Yeah. not personal. It's not like I'm attacking people to say, hey, you know, |
| 1:17.7 | you know, you in particular, you're terrible. Sure, there are some people who are bad at their jobs, |
| 1:22.5 | but. They deserve to be attacked. I don't know if that's the right way to frame. |
| 1:27.8 | No, no, no. |
| 1:28.7 | We're talking real. |
| 1:29.9 | A lot of times, you see, I'm glad that we're having this conversation already before even really talking about whether we're going to do a show or not. |
| 1:35.9 | Maybe this will just turn in. |
| 1:37.1 | Maybe this will just turn into that show, you know. |
| 1:39.9 | But that's the point. |
| 1:42.9 | We're talking real, right? |
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