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It's not that they're incompetent, it's just that they follow the rules designed by the really competent people. Such that nearly anyone could do their job. One
by malvosenior 7y ago
It's not that they're incompetent, it's just that they follow the rules designed by the really competent people. Such that nearly anyone could do their job. One of the scaling factors of excellent people is the ability to design systems others can leverage.
- munk-a 7y agoYea, people who can inspire competence are quite valuable to a company - but, while there certainly is a natural aptitude, people management is a trained profession now, and someone that is being people managed and gaining that benefit could likely have followed a different career path and become a people manager themselves - so there is cause for some pay disparity but that position isn't something that is unique to the individual.
- malvosenior 7y agoI'm not sure that's true. Managing people is really difficult and few are suited to it. Not many people have the will to fire someone for instance. I'm also talking about top end developers building the systems critical to the business, sales people with the valuable roladexes, the designer crafting the company's brand...