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> Otherwise they disappear into meetings with people who have nothing to do with your product or team, presumably for very important reasons. Why do managers s
by nerfhammer 6y ago
> Otherwise they disappear into meetings with people who have nothing to do with your product or team, presumably for very important reasons.
Why do managers spend 70% of their time on mysterious external meetings? What are they actually doing?
- Igelau 6y agopointing at charts and reciting acronyms
- jrott 6y ago> Why do managers spend 70% of their time on mysterious external meetings? What are they actually doing? usually they're either trying to get there team politically important work or to get out of politically unimportant work. If things have gone really wrong in some it's time spent not getting stuck with whatever giant sack of shit is rolling downhill at that moment.
- Hates_ 6y agoI can only speak for myself, but the meetings that previously seemed mysterious when I was an IC, are those around organisational objectives, resourcing, budgets, supplier management, alignment with other departments (Product, DCO, Infosec, Legal), catchups with my direct reports, technology department objectives etc.