Leadership
Lodi’s style of leadership.
Team member Robby (not his real name) couldn’t just sit there to be wrongfully accused of whatever caused Lodi to yell this time, so he spoke up and provided corrections.
“The name of the game is speed,” Lodi would always say… … right in the middle of stopping us in the middle of the task because he saw something he doesn’t recognize on our screens. “We have to stop having verbal discussions and let the file do the talking,” is another favorite of his… … but all throughout the day, all throughout the week, he would always call for face-to-face verbal discussions with the file…
For every little step: Report/update Lodi. His requirement. So sure, as to be expected, he told me to update him before he ran off to one of his meetings. I resume working on the task. For this step, I need to upload a spreadsheet file to a site. He has already signed off on the file without actually checking it. His way of checking was checking one row of the spreadsheet. Anyway, I open the…