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Was Director of IT. My manager would be considered Middle Management. She had a half dozen directors reporting her and would meet with them to get updates and s
by codefreakxff 7y ago
Was Director of IT. My manager would be considered Middle Management. She had a half dozen directors reporting her and would meet with them to get updates and set goals for each department every week. She would pour over all the financials and accounting to make sure things were on track. She would take the results of meetings back to Upper Management and tell them everything was fine. Upper Management would then go play golf and figure out some new way of expanding our lines of business, or meet with random groups of staff to make their presence known, put on a friendly face. No idea what else Upper Management did with the rest of their day
- shostack 7y agoWhat's funny is that the further removed up the totem pole a role is, the more people assume they do less and less. Sure in some cases that might be how it goes, but it would be worth spending some time exploring how things work at the top. For example, what appears to be a useless golf game may be relationship building for a future major partnership.