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Abstraction increases as you move up org charts. Unfortunately, actual process knowledge does not. I blame the "MBAs can do anything" philosophy, but it's prob
by ethbro 10y ago
Abstraction increases as you move up org charts. Unfortunately, actual process knowledge does not.
I blame the "MBAs can do anything" philosophy, but it's probably also a consequence of worker mobility.
To state it most simply: if your management (at any level) cannot call bullshit on the data their direct reports provide them (whatever level of abstraction that is), then your business is at existential risk.
- ellius 10y agoAgreed. And then you realize these are the guys that handle the world's money. Not exactly a mystery why the financial industry has a culture problem. I almost had a heart attack thinking about it while watching one of my bosses try to consolidate 13 different versions of a spreadsheet, none of which made sense. And then I realized he's one of the above par ones.