> In one of the first meetings I held with one of the teams I had just taken charge of, a poster on the wall declared the ubiquitous Silicon Valley mantra: Bring Your Authentic Self to Work. To try to break the ice, I said, “Please don’t bring your authentic self to work. You wouldn’t like my authentic self if I brought it to work. So just bring your inauthentic self to work from nine to five and then you can go home and be yourself and we’ll get on perfectly well.” Stony silence
That would have absolutely earned a(n ungainly) fist pump from me!
dazc•2h ago
From a guy who's authentic self changes with the direction of the wind?
akoboldfrying•34m ago
Maybe it's more authentic to acknowledge that being inauthentic -- also known as politeness or professionalism -- is sometimes the best policy for everyone.
akoboldfrying•3h ago
> In one of the first meetings I held with one of the teams I had just taken charge of, a poster on the wall declared the ubiquitous Silicon Valley mantra: Bring Your Authentic Self to Work. To try to break the ice, I said, “Please don’t bring your authentic self to work. You wouldn’t like my authentic self if I brought it to work. So just bring your inauthentic self to work from nine to five and then you can go home and be yourself and we’ll get on perfectly well.” Stony silence
That would have absolutely earned a(n ungainly) fist pump from me!
dazc•2h ago
akoboldfrying•34m ago