[refurb]

As someone who has been in small to large organizations I have a new found appreciation for leadership, strategy and people management.

I worked at one place with 50 employees where it was basically 50 people all doing their own thing where not a whole lot got done or at least not done well. But everybody was busy!

Now, organizational planning is useful though hard. Some people want to push it all the way down to the individual employee where things often fall apart. There are plenty of jobs where what your goals were in January and not good goals in February. So to solve that the goals are made broad and fuzzy. At that point no one can tell if goals have been met or not.

So by end of year it pretty much comes down to how your manager feels about your work. You could have solved a really hard problem that made the company money, but if your manager doesn’t know about it, it didn’t happen.