Workplace Survival Guide: Gilding Turds, Passing the Buck, and Emergency Tasks
Have You Met People Like This? You think the most awesome people in a company are the most technically skilled? Wrong. It’s the people who don’t need to write code or make plans—but get promoted and get raises every time. What do they rely on? The three-piece set of a rushed operation: gilding turds, passing the buck, and emergency tasks. The First Piece: Gilding Turds—Making Simple Things Complicated What’s “gilding turds”? Taking a clearly simple requirement and packaging it to be incredibly complex and high-end. ...