And the growing body of evidence that I owe you my life hehehe
truthfully, I am. I’m blessed! fortunate. Lucky. and privileged. It doesn’t escape me and I want to do the amazing people and their wisdom around me justice.
Neela, you are fascinating. The way Dan describes your posts is bang on. Each time I read one, I am right there with you, like I can hear your dad’s voice talking about the gate. And the pork song that had our whole family dancing to Trinidadian music last Christmas! Your life has seeped into mine through this platform and I love that.
For real with these executives making too much money.
For two consecutive years, I gave up a portion of my own bonus when I was a director just so I could allocate appropriate bonus amounts to my high-performing team. The Board came up with a ridiculous Bonus Plan where managers were given a bonus payout budget equivalent to "Meets Performance" for every person on the team.
If you rated someone Exceeds Performance, the extra bonus amount would have to be taken from either someone else on the team or from up the chain. It incentivized leaders to only rate someone "Meets Performance" even though the org had been pushing them to do three jobs on a zero-based budget.
Not once did I see executives give up a portion of their bonuses. Not even the most well-intentioned ones. It was always the employees who paid for the deficit. It's so fucked up.
@Neela 🌶️ I just want to say thank you again for being on crosswinds and sharing your story and leadership thoughts with me.
I learned a lot. I hope others do too.
Thank you.
Dan
Thank you so much.
Happy Thursday Dan
Woohoo 🎉🙌🙌
So exciting Dan.
This is my third written interview.
I'm glad we connected Dan and I look forward to future collabs
Thank you for putting this together.
Third time is the charm!
Me too :)
Cheers Neela, always!
Dan is so lucky to have met you, through me 😏🤌
This is so true 😂
And I am lucky to have met you both. Group hugs 🤗
Happy Thursday Jennifer
Happy Thursday Neela 🌶️
I legit almost forgot what day it is
me too actually.
It feels like a Friday tho
Let’s bring it back to Jhong real quick. <3
And the growing body of evidence that I owe you my life hehehe
truthfully, I am. I’m blessed! fortunate. Lucky. and privileged. It doesn’t escape me and I want to do the amazing people and their wisdom around me justice.
Oh you weren’t meant to reply earnestly 😂
But you’re welcome haha
But I did think about you when I was doing the interview. I promise.
I remember these things.
🤗
This was so great. I am a big fan of Neela, even more so now. Love the spicy leadership takes.
Thanks for featuring her in your series, Dan!
Thank you for your kind words, Brandi
I actually trademarked Spicy Leadership
It is going to be something eventually. I’m just not sure what.
Thank you for reading.
Neela I think if you wrote a book it would fly off the shelves. I'd read it. Maybe a substack rebrand if you ever get tired of Workmanshit :)
Hard agree!
That’s amazing! Can’t wait to see what comes of it.
I really enjoyed it too :)
all props go to Neela! I am but an eager scrap booker.
I have like half the book sitting in drafts since 2022.
I can definitely prove provenance lol
A future project for sure.
👀👀👀 Is that half-manuscript on 🌶️spicy🌶️ leadership?
It’s mostly ramblings lol
Neela, you are fascinating. The way Dan describes your posts is bang on. Each time I read one, I am right there with you, like I can hear your dad’s voice talking about the gate. And the pork song that had our whole family dancing to Trinidadian music last Christmas! Your life has seeped into mine through this platform and I love that.
Thank you both 💕
This might be one of the loveliest things anyone has said to me here.
Thank you for letting my little corner of Trinidad seep into yours. 💕
For real with these executives making too much money.
For two consecutive years, I gave up a portion of my own bonus when I was a director just so I could allocate appropriate bonus amounts to my high-performing team. The Board came up with a ridiculous Bonus Plan where managers were given a bonus payout budget equivalent to "Meets Performance" for every person on the team.
If you rated someone Exceeds Performance, the extra bonus amount would have to be taken from either someone else on the team or from up the chain. It incentivized leaders to only rate someone "Meets Performance" even though the org had been pushing them to do three jobs on a zero-based budget.
Not once did I see executives give up a portion of their bonuses. Not even the most well-intentioned ones. It was always the employees who paid for the deficit. It's so fucked up.
On-topic, I think. https://johngdyer.substack.com/s/camera-familia