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> That the higher up the org chart someone is the busier they are. So what you spend 40 hours a week thinking about they might not spend 45 minutes thinking abo
by metaphor 7y ago
> That the higher up the org chart someone is the busier they are. So what you spend 40 hours a week thinking about they might not spend 45 minutes thinking about.
Respectfully, that's a proverbial crock of trite bullshit perpetuated to game the naive/inexperienced.
If the next level above me couldn't spend at least 45 minutes thinking about the general problem I've been trying to solve in the past week, then that person:
a.) is stretched way too thin (which should be pretty obvious); or
b.) seriously needs to GTFO for the sake of the rest of the team.
P.S. As a de facto (not even official) technical lead on a US$3mil+ project that I've been assigned to, I spend at least 45 minutes a week sitting on a toilet bowl thinking of ways to improve the performance of my team while literally taking a shit. What's your project manager's excuse?
- zizee 7y ago> If the next level above me couldn't spend at least 45 minutes thinking... Grandparent comment did not say "next level" above. People are often talking to people in different parts of a company, or more than one level up/down.
- lidHanteyk 7y agoUse geometric reasoning. If you expect every manager to spend a fortieth of their time on each of their (forty?) direct reports' projects, then that would imply that across two levels, there's only about a minute of consideration, and for three levels, less than two seconds. On the other hand, maybe this explains why upper management is always so disconnected.