3 ms·
Because management is difficult and proponents of stack ranking and other data-driven approaches think there's a way to automate management. It turns out -I be
by cryptonector 8y ago
Because management is difficult and proponents of stack ranking and other data-driven approaches think there's a way to automate management. It turns out -I believe anyways- that for many kinds of jobs you can't really automate management. If you want to know who your best and brightest are, and who the chaff is, you need to get down and dirty and get to know them.
- gadders 8y agoThat's true, but it also lets poor people keep the team members they like, rather than the good ones.
- cryptonector 8y agoMaybe, but you can always rotate managers around to deal with that problem. And you can have dotted-line relationships. There are more good ways to deal with people problems as such than there are good ways to deal with people problems as data problems.
- gadders 8y agoYeah, it's an analogue problem and not easy to solve. Hopefully, a manager that did that would get found out when his team was full of incompetent cronies.