Like most of you I have been working from home since early 2020. I left SO MANY companies during that time too, in order to find a company who had some semblance they knew what they were doing... And what I have observed is very similar to what I observed while working in the office. Too many people just don't understand how to run technology projects / companies. Yet those are the people who are running the projects.

I think I have gained some insight into why this is too. You see, not only have I been leaving companies out of disgust for how they run themselves, I have been engaging in dialogue with upper management to explain in extraordinary detail why the way we're doing things is just wrong. I was doing this as well while I was working in the office. And I can't imagine, at least for the companies I've worked for in recent past, that they could've become any less productive since everyone started working from home.

The insight is this, I think the people who have ended up in these positions of power have been running through the same gauntlet as all their predecessors before them. This has created what I think are some extremely rigid constructs that seem to be churning out the same garbage we keep getting out of our leaders. At all levels.

My question is, how do we break this cycle? The people in charge abide by the wrong principles and the way our leaders are chosen are by these same principles.

I'm beginning to doubt that will change in my lifetime...