You’ve heard of the 10x engineer, but I am here to tell you about the Wolf. They are engineers, and they consistently exhibit the following characteristics :
They appear to exist outside of the well-defined process that we’ve defined to get things done, but they appear to suffer no consequences for not following these rules.
Everyone knows they’re the Wolf, but no one ever calls them the Wolf.
They have a manager, but no one really knows who it is.
They have a lot of meetings, but none of them are scheduled. Inviting them to your meeting is a crap shoot.
They understand ...