The Fallacy of Meeting Expectations

Coding is magic. Leading an engineering organization is like being in charge of a cadre of brilliant wizards. At least, it should be.

The experienced and calloused tech executive has learned—often the hard way—that things are not as easy as they seem. As the team grows, complexity prospers. This intrinsic perfectionism engenders a vicious, negative feedback loop forming an organization on an incessant drive to… meet expectations.