pb0316

I really love your honest commentary through your answers and appreciate the insight on your life in Hawaii. I was born & raised on Oahu, so this means a lot.

My question: I'm a product manager at a large scientific instrument company. The instruments are used in all aspects of science, so I'm happy about that. However, the organization as a whole trends older aged, is very slow moving, institutional, conservative, and resistant to change. As one of the youngest PMs, there are a lot of ideas I'd like to have implemented. I'd like to move fast and break things, but I always get stopped out on process or internal politics. Any advice on how to navigate an organization like this?

Thanks for the advise - something I've definitely been contemplating; as the pace I'd like to have my instrument product line developed isn't moving as fast as I want...I see all these adjacent startups and their technologies and am envious at the speed of which they can adapt and integrate. I want real, disruptive (yet innovative) change, in how our instruments are used, viewed, and applied. Right now it's confined primarily to the lab, but I know it can be much much more than that.

Btw - hope everything is ok in Hawaii with the COVID situation and all. I recently had to cancel my wedding there since the governor asked not to come. We could've gone anyway, but as a former kama'aina it just felt slimy not to take the concerns of the locals into account.