I feel like this is a cop out. "What voice do I have besides this Q&A?" "Well, you have this Q&A."
Then, during the Q&A period, several of the questions were about Project Maven. Leadership got hammered. This was totally unplanned, and I don’t think anyone expected such a forceful employee response. One woman stood up and said something like, “Hey, I left the Defense Department so I wouldn’t have to work on this kind of stuff. What kind of voice do we have besides this Q&A to explain why this project is not okay?”
Sergey Brin, one of Google’s cofounders, responded first. And his response really paid us dividends. He said something like, “Letting you ask that question is the voice that you have. Very few companies would allow you to do that.”
I feel like this is a cop out. "What voice do I have besides this Q&A?" "Well, you have this Q&A."
I feel like this is a cop out. "What voice do I have besides this Q&A?" "Well, you have this Q&A."