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I largely share your opinion and conclusions; good managers were always a combination of filters and selective connectors and I don't think this has changed. If
by ticmasta 6y ago
I largely share your opinion and conclusions; good managers were always a combination of filters and selective connectors and I don't think this has changed. If anything it's far more important these days. What I fear (and hate) as a manager is that you're right - I need to be privy to every conversation, topic, initiative, etc and then pull in only the absolutely minimally required resources. This consumes all my time and is extremely tiring.
- mumblemumble 6y agoI hear you; that is exactly why I noped out of management and decided I'm perfectly happy to continue living at the bottom of the org chart. It seems like one of the great tragedies of tech is that the kind of personality and temperament that would predispose a person to being able to genuinely enjoy this kind of work probably also tends to greatly diminish that person's chances of ever being promoted into a position where they'd be asked to do that kind of work.