--- title: (comic) Tie initiatives to P&L | daily.dev description: A workplace comic humorously illustrating the corporate advice to tie initiatives to profit and loss statements, part of a recurring comic series about office... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-tie-initiatives-to-p-l-7degsjkrg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: (comic) Tie initiatives to P&L | daily.dev og:description: A workplace comic humorously illustrating the corporate advice to tie initiatives to profit and loss statements, part of a recurring comic series about office... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-tie-initiatives-to-p-l-7degsjkrg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7DeGSjkrG.png og:image:alt: (comic) Tie initiatives to P&L og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # (comic) Tie initiatives to P&L **[Work Chronicles](https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles)** · 1 min read · 30 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A workplace comic humorously illustrating the corporate advice to tie initiatives to profit and loss statements, part of a recurring comic series about office life. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@tilman151** · 2 upvotes > No joke, I'm reading the book "Open & Async" right now and it is eye-opening to see how not defaulting to synchronous work improves things. Especially when working remote. **@varagos** · 2 upvotes > Meaningless meetings that distract engineers and could have just been a slack message, should be considered as bad work as missing a deadline. **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > I think attendance is wasted when someone can't change the decision. 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