Signs that it’s time to leave a company

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• Author: bezeee
• Full Title: Signs that it’s time to leave a company
• URL: https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e

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The most successful approaches I’ve seen (which Sun didn’t do) are to cut deeply and early by shutting down entire product lines and removing layers of management, so that the company can grow back by opening headcount again. It’s like pruning a sickly tree. If you cut off the dead leaves one by one, you end up with too many branches and shriveled fruit. If you cut back hard, and remove whole branches, the roots provide enough energy for the tree to grow back (View Highlight)

When laying off cut early and deep

In the unlikely event that a deep pruning and grow back strategy is happening at your company, and you are still there, the product teams that are left after pruning should try to keep the most experienced employees, lay off the junior ones, and return managers to individual contributor positions where possible. Experienced employees have been through this before, make better judgement calls under stress, and communicate better (View Highlight) In layoffs, return managers to individual contributor positions