I got into the world of business (and out of the world of media and\/or bars) about fifteen years ago.<\/p>\n
After I’d been in the racket about eight or nine years, I remember sitting in a meeting, to meet a new director for an IT department I was with. “Polish up your resume”, I whispered to the co-worker next to me.<\/p>\n I was right, of course.\u00a0 When a person has to advertise himself as a “process person”, it’s generally because they’ve found a) it’s easier than focusing on delivering things, and b) has found a ready-enough market of companies whose intrinsic processes are so dysfunctional that he’s been able to string sort of a career together.\u00a0 Organizations that are dysfunctional enough to need “process people” are generally too hopeless to be fixed by tweaking “process”; they need to be gutted and started over.\u00a0 In the meantime, if you’re stuck with a “process person” for a manager – well, see the beginning of the post.<\/p>\n And it goes double for people who pronounce the word processes like “pro-ses-SEES”.<\/p>\n
\n“I’m a process<\/em> person”, he said, confidently.<\/p>\n