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When I posted my product on producthunt (and that was about 5 years ago) I got dozens of props with a first place guarantee.
Literally an hour after posting, I was bombarded with messages. Now it's probably even worse.
Over the course of seven months, I conducted more than 50 interviews with top-level managers, mainly CEO (chief executive officer), CTO (chief technology officer), CFO (chief financial officer), COO (chief operating officer) and CIO (chief innovation/IT officer), from countries such as Poland, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Sweden. These meetings gave me the opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives on the onset of the crisis in the markets, especially in the IT and high-tech industry, and to learn about the current situation in companies. The following transcripts are based on these reflections and the data collected.
In relationships with other people, especially those closest to us, we often encounter situations where their words seem hurtful. Honesty that is perceived as unfair and harsh can be difficult to accept and is therefore automatically rejected. However, only people who know the other person well and care about his or her wellbeing are able to make comments that are difficult to hear but necessary for his or her development. Provided, of course, that they do so with empathy, respect, reverence and sincerity.
According to a Gallup survey, only 26% of employees believe that the feedback they receive helps them to do a better job. This is because appraisals and development discussions often lack the ‘tough’ content that would be helpful for their development.
Research from the Harvard Business Review supports this. They report that while 72% of employees consider leaders providing critical feedback to be important for their development, only 5% of them believe that their managers actually share such feedback with them.
Most noteworthy IT companies in Poland are affiliated with the Software Development Association (SODA). You can find members on the website: https://sodapl.com/en/members/. There are a lot of them.
I personally know of:
- Transition Technology - https://ttpsc.com - huge organization, I don't know if they will want to work with someone small;
I work for a Swedish-Polish-Estonian (yeah I know!) startup. Soda was already recommended to me by a Polish friend. I have written to a few of them, but I would feel more confident with a recommendation.
I have not yet contacted with the ones you recommended. I will try them. Thank you!
However, if anyone else could recommend someone worthy of attention, I would be grateful.
- As the McKinsey report shows, it is estimated that between 400 and 800 million workers worldwide will have to change jobs by 2030 due to automation. Technical skills are dying out faster and faster, with some experts even estimating their lifespan to be just a few years.
- 57% of senior managers say that social skills are more important than technical skills.
- For example, being a software engineer is not just about delivering the code itself. It is a complex and intricate role where you have to look at millions of different contexts and be able to bring them together. In the main, it is based on empathy and understanding another human being in order to make the process you want to improve useful.
- 86% of employees and managers cite a lack of effective collaboration and communication as the main reasons for failure in the workplace,
- 74% of employees feel that they lack good communication within the company,
- 80% of US employees report feeling stressed due to ineffective communication,
- 28% of employees feel that poor communication is the cause of their inability to get work done by a certain date,
- according to a report by David Grossman (involving 400 large companies and 100,000 employees), it is estimated that the cost of communication barriers in the workplace is $62.4 million per company per year.
