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I cant believe this hasnt been said yet: Every job can be converted into this esp in any sort of managerial role, the strategy to do this has only 3 basic step
by waqasx 5y ago
I cant believe this hasnt been said yet:
Every job can be converted into this esp in any sort of managerial role, the strategy to do this has only 3 basic steps:
# 1 - Hire a great team under you.
If you have one person, two person, or more working under you, make sure they know what to do and make sure they understand your expectations.
# 2 - Delegate your work.
Try to get rid of as much work as possible. There will be surprisingly little you have to do personally if you have done step 1 right. People who work under you wont even mind delegation+trust if you dont get in their way and micromanage. Just give them work and forget about it.
# 3 - Relax
Now you can chill while other people do your work for you. Keep tuning this system until you have created a well oiled machine under you that runs with minimal manual supervision. You now have time to focus on more important things.
- mtberatwork 5y agoOP said no management positions: > Only tech, I do not want to manage people.
- kapilkale 5y agoYo, this is actually really hard
- codegeek 5y ago"Hire a great team" .."Delegate your work"..These are the opposite of easy stuff which OP wants to do. Team building and managing is one of THE hardest things to do. Won't work for OP who is looking for easy stuff. Source: I have built a team of 20+ people and keeping it functioning well is one of the hardest things for me.
- zeroxfe 5y agoHiring and managing a team is extremely hard, and can get very stressful. The care and nurturing of organizations, while keeping them productive and resilient to constantly changing environments, is probably the hardest job.
- PragmaticPulp 5y agoAgreed. This comment sounds like it came from either someone who has never been in a management role before or someone who is on track to be the boss everyone hates because they do none of the work but take all of the prestige. Anyone who thinks hiring, managing, and retaining good talent is easy has never done it before. Either that, or they somehow have high enough budgets to hire people at $500K/yr and pay them to ignore the bad boss in exchange for fat paychecks.
- redisman 5y agoA manager not doing their job is terrible for the team. It might work for a year but then all the capable devs are going to leave.
- thih9 5y agoWhat if the people under you or those contacted about task delegation now want to take your job?
- yitchelle 5y agoWasn't there a story a few years back where an engineer (from a high cost country) outsourced his work to another engineer (from a low cost country)?
- jax_christian 5y agoReminded me of this Onion report from a decade ago: https://youtu.be/rYaZ57Bn4pQ https://youtu.be/rYaZ57Bn4pQ