CEO 101: Stop calling people 'your people'
Just today I saw another CEO saying on Facebook ‘I have amazing developers’. I said to myself, that’s it. I decided to rant about it. Because I’ve been introduced to people like ‘here is MY CTO’ (‘my’ emphasized), I heard CEO’s say ‘I give my developers x,y,z’ as if they are … whatever, you know what I mean.
It bugs me. It bugs me now I am a CEO, it bugged me when I was a CTO, was a developer. It’s wrong, it’s lame, stop doing it. It’s not the same as saying my wife, my children, my cat. It’s bad.
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