just curious about how you guys handle office politics when logic and data completely fail. I once had a manager who refused to cancel a failing $50k software contract just because he personally picked the vendor. showing him spreadsheets of our lost productivity just made him angry, and he kept blaming the team for “not adapting to the learning curve.” I eventually had to manipulate the situation and convince him that cancelling the tool would make him look like a “bold leader” who protects the team’s agility. I basically had to stroke his ego just to get a logical business decision made. It worked, but honestly it felt exhausting. what’s your best/worst story of dealing with irrational corporate logic? did you find a psychological trick to bypass their ego, or did you just give up and quit?
Only time I’ve ever been written up in my career, I told the CEO – very politely – that “cybersecurity is the boards responsibility, whether they want it to be or not.” He did not like hearing that.
If there’s a problem, they can count on me to tell them about it. Always in writing. If they don’t want to act, that’s on them.
“If you leave now you’ll be fired.” -so many dead bosses in the WTC.