[poseycorp’s newsletter and blog are telling the 100% fictional story of Clara and Marcus’s big adventures at WidgetCo. If you need to catch up: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5]
After the disastrous (at least in his mind) e-team meeting re: generative AI strategy, Jones asked Marcus to build a couple of new slides.
“I need something like a Magic Quadrant for our sector,” said Jones. “But we can’t use the Garntner one cuz I didn’t pay for the subscription this year. So make your own. I also need the latest quotes from academics on LLMs.”
“What are these slides for, Jones?” Marcus asked.
“I don’t have to f***ing justify myself to you,” Jones spat out. “You work for ME. Do it. NOW.”
Marcus waited to roll his eyes until after he was out of Jones’s office. WidgetCo was great, but did that outweigh being under this guy’s thumb?
‘This is a question for another day,’ Marcus told himself as he sat down to Slack Clara and Emily on a private channel. ‘I think we might have a problem. I have no idea what Jones is up to. Should we tell April or Monica?’
Emily wrote back before Clara had even finished reading the message: ‘I’ll tell April there may be a situation brewing. But we don’t have enough facts to go to Monica yet.’
As Emily walked by Monica’s office on the way to April’s, she heard Monica on the phone. “We have a problem.”
Meanwhile, Clara stopped by Justine’s office for a planning meeting. Justine waved her in even though she was finishing a call. “Don’t be a narcissist Arun. This company can be way bigger than your ego if you’ll let it.”
Clara knew better than to ask Justine about that call. She just popped open her laptop and they started reviewing Clara’s draft PRD.
Emily and Clara both know when to be alert but NOT to act – essential skills for communicators seeking change.
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