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"I think this is why technical people say it’s helpful to have a manager who acts as a sounding board." You are saying the usefulness of a manager is the same
by perl4ever 7y ago
"I think this is why technical people say it’s helpful to have a manager who acts as a sounding board."
You are saying the usefulness of a manager is the same as, say, a stuffed octopus. I think this is illustrative of a cultural gap. Someone else might claim that all of the interesting and challenging problems in business are management problems that technical people as such don't even acknowledge.
- loopz 7y agoInstead of using straw-men, assumptions about where/who argument is from or downmodding, other strategies would be more constructive.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhat? I didn't say anything about any of the above. "Someone might claim" is a euphemism for me, not a straw man. A stuffed octopus is indeed something people (techies) use as a sounding board - and it works. You can explain your problems to anyone or anything and get surprisingly good results. I have used my manager this way. However, that's not the limit of what a manager can do.