Three "last conversations"
Last year, Mindaugas Mozras's company was in dire straits. Its strategy was not working. All the key metrics were drifting downward. People left. The company even did a reorg. During this time, he had many last conversationssometimes trying to stop people from leaving, other times to let them go. Mindaugas relates three such conversations, sharing lessons on honesty and delivering bad news.
| Talk Title | Three "last conversations" |
| Speakers | Mindaugas Mozūras (Vinted) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Build Resilient Distributed Systems |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Date | October 18-20, 2017 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Last year, Mindaugas Mozūras’s company was in dire straits. Its strategy was not working. All the key metrics were drifting downward. People left. The company even did a reorg. During this time, he had many last conversations—sometimes trying to stop people from leaving, other times to let them go. Mindaugas relates three such conversations, sharing lessons on mistakes, diving saves, honesty, delivering bad news, and the differences between effort and results. This story has a happy ending. Mindaugas is still with the company, which managed to turn it around and has never been in a better position.
