A story of a serious challenge with an employee not fitting in with our team’s culture. This discusses the interesting techniques I used to try to mentor and guide this young man to better performance. People really celebrated my methods and held it up as a great example of modern, effective, management. I remain unsure whether this was a win or a loss. You tell me.

The picture here is of Symantec's current world headquarters. It is neither the building I worked in nor the manufacturing site mentioned in this episode. Back in my day Symantec was in Cupertino just down the road from Apple's Infinite Loop campus.