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keeptrying on March 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Smart People are Bad Employees

This kind of guy usually needs to lead or he is probably smarter than everyone else in the room.

dpritchett on March 2, 2011 [–]

Quite so. The project manager comes to you with an underoptimized set of step-by-step instructions; you help him to give you a minimal set of defensible business goals instead.

Next step: meet those goals in the most effective way you know how.

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