Nvidia is the most successful company this decade are these one-on-one meeting rules. Gemini summary
https://fortune.com/2024/06/12/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-meeting-rule/
Summary: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang prioritizes efficiency and avoids unnecessary meetings, even with his direct reports. He believes frequent meetings hinder information flow and transparency. Instead, he emphasizes constant communication and empowers his team to do their jobs. This approach aligns with other leaders who see unnecessary meetings as a waste of time.
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@odr Reasons I posted this is to show there are other ways of achieving "efficiencies" besides laying off people. Empowering people is where it is at. It's cruel what the current facilitators are doing to you. I am grateful that I was laid off early.
I look at AI as simply another human-computer interface. First, their were text screens (CPM and DOS operating systems). Then along came the Parc inspired windowing systems. And finally the html (internet) interfaces. Us lowly workers, the coders, had to learn how to get data into the computer using these interfaces, and store and retrieve the data (using yet another evolving set of database, ORM, API tools). We had to learn a whole lot of languages, and libraries.
I caution you to look at AI as overhyped. At first I thought the internet with its html was overhyped and stayed with the window system libraries too long. That cost me (and in retrospect might have been one of the reasons I ended having to close out my career at this wretched place.
Snore.
I think it is a mistake to not have 1:1 meetings. I've worked for managers that didn't hold them and the role was not as engaging as the ones that do schedule them. Even just 15 minutes with one's manager can be useful.
I worked at NVIDIA years ago, just when they started getting huge.
They're smart, shady at times, like all companies these days, but smart.
They only care about making money. Do not get between a NVIDIA employee and their stock options.
It was great working there most of the time, because they don't put up with BS.
Oh, yeah, and AI, that's part of the "shady at times". It's just the latest hype to get more funding and pump up stock prices.
There are some great uses for AI, but AI everywhere is like the Internet of Things.
Us IT folks have a joke about having just one "thing" connected to the internet, a printer, and we keep a double barrell next to it in case it tries anything.
AI will be used to pump stock, milk investors, and in the end, mostly data mine us all and find a way to get as much money from us as they can, including that 73 cents in change under your sofa cushions.
One thing I don't get though, WTAF does this have to do with layoffs at WF?
95% of the meetings are unnecessary and waste of time. Just think about the opportunity costs! CS is not even qualified to lick Jensen Huang’s shoes!
AI is the biggest scam since Covid.
Now do RTO.