Pros
The office had decent coffee, and the tea, was not openly hostile toward each other.
Cons
- The company had no clear definition of what success looked like for any assignment.
- Work was repeatedly reassigned midstream, leaving projects unfinished and priorities constantly in conflict.
- Meetings were frequent but failed to produce clear deliverables, timelines, or direction.
- Strategy shifted depending on who was present, with no stable roadmap or documentation to guide execution.
- Vague concepts like alignment and bigger picture thinking were used in place of actual actionable direction.
- There was a constant expectation for faster output even when goals and requirements kept changing.
- The result was ongoing disruption that made it impossible to complete work in a consistent or meaningful way.
