I’m going to be very honest here and say; if I considered working at an EA org but found a lot of their management had only ever worked at EA orgs, I’d have some pretty serious concerns.
One concrete concern; I’d ask some pointed questions about their experience managing employees who are parents.
A second; I remember reading a job ad from an EA org that said something to the effect of “if you can’t handle direct criticism then this probably isn’t for you.” Well, I personally enjoy criticism, but the fact that this job ad got through a bunch of people without that line being amended showed me a serious lack of organisational self awareness.
Great stuff Elliot :)
I’m going to be very honest here and say; if I considered working at an EA org but found a lot of their management had only ever worked at EA orgs, I’d have some pretty serious concerns.
One concrete concern; I’d ask some pointed questions about their experience managing employees who are parents.
A second; I remember reading a job ad from an EA org that said something to the effect of “if you can’t handle direct criticism then this probably isn’t for you.” Well, I personally enjoy criticism, but the fact that this job ad got through a bunch of people without that line being amended showed me a serious lack of organisational self awareness.