This week was kind of strange. Since coming back from leave, I've felt like things weren't flowing or moving forward or generally heading in the right direction. Or rather any direction. I wasn't alone in that feeling. You know those dreams people have when you're standing at the dock next to the Titanic and trying to tell people not to get on the boat? It's like that.
I don't know that we have any resolution, but the coworker I'm most aligned with and I agreed on a basic plan of action. The thing that's hard is that we work in a big company that often acts like a big company in terms of its agility, despite the fact that our team can generally move fast. There are decades of stereotypical big company culture, ranging from development and planning processes to over-obsessive HR things (and surveys for everything!). It's not easy to roll all of that back and convince people, "These things are important, the rest is noise."
I think my long-term success at the company will come from applying what I've learned in start-ups and mid-sized companies to some role there. Hard to say where or what that is, but I'm confident I can find it. It's a pretty good company that's hell bent on developing its people. It's been an exciting few months, and I have every reason to believe that it'll only get more interesting in the coming months.
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