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Its called middle management, the backbone (or bane) of any bigger comnpany. Guys up there have no clue about average joe the coder/doer/whatever, maybe a vague

• outworlder 6y ago
  > Guys up there have no clue about average joe the coder/doer/whatever They also don't have the full picture. They have their own agenda, which is usually taking _more_ managers under them, to inflate their own importance. All the while paying lip service to the overall company strategy. When CEOs get frustrated that the wheels are not turning in the right direction (or fast enough), middle management is usually the reason. Lower management (and leaf) will be trying to implement whatever distorted message filtered through the ranks.
• JoeAltmaier 6y ago
  Yes. And middle management suffers from "too many degrees of freedom" in their decision making. They're trying to paper over the gap from their teams, to the executive suite. Without contact with the customer nor the board/investors (call it 'reality'), they can have too many solutions because, not enough data. Some respond by retrenching - trying for the biggest budget and the fewest deliverables, so their stats look good. Which is ironically the worst possible outcome for everybody.