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In fact my most useful mentor and boss said to me look, I trust you guys to sort this out. I want to hear the plans and ask questions but I only need to be invo
by iamdave 9y ago
In fact my most useful mentor and boss said to me look, I trust you guys to sort this out. I want to hear the plans and ask questions but I only need to be involved when you can’t come to an agreement. And then I can be your tie breaker.
I had a boss like this and very much believed in that sort of autonomy, only getting involved-as you said to be the 'tie breaker', but still lead a great engineering team and was a great source of knowledge and mentorship.
I say 'had' for a reason. That reason is mentioned in the post that started this comment chain. Now what's that tell you? Heh...heh :(
- hinkley 9y agoI had a different boss who trusted us implicitly but essentially we were managing ourselves. Unlike Mr Mentor we didn’t talk shop and he didn’t challenge us very much or at least concretely to do better. In fact I was only ever aware of him doing about 20 hours of work a week and half of that was meetings (the other half administravia). Given the politics there I suspect the rest of his time was kissing butts or covering them. Since the end of the dotcom era I’ve never seen a more high minded bunch of Emperors New Clothes types all in one spot. Woof.