Train your company not to play with Dead Snakes.
Recommended Article dei Three Powerful Conversations Managers Must Have To Develop Their People What's a Dead Snake? Former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously called problematic ideas 'snakes' and warned against Dead Snakes in a speech at Harvard. But in the context I'm talking about here (and to build on his ideas), it's a project or feature you’re building that's going nowhere. It might have looked very much alive. There might have been significant interest from a customer. It might have played a central role in your last board meeting presentation.
