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This is an industry wide issue, any bozo/hustler (pardon my french) can get into the management track, get promoted as long as he keeps the one guy above him ha
by ngc248 5y ago
This is an industry wide issue, any bozo/hustler (pardon my french) can get into the management track, get promoted as long as he keeps the one guy above him happy. In some cases like the one you mentioned the guy above does not want to admit his mistake so the bozo keeps on thriving.
Whereas over in the technical track, the difficulty of getting promoted becomes exponentially harder, you need to have patents, publish papers, come up with new product lines etc etc
But over in the management track, its a regular old boys club, you can decimate whole teams, bury good products into the ground and still come out unscathed.
So is the solution that we need more technical folks to go into management ... I dont know ... any thoughts?
- bobthepanda 5y agoThis isn‘t a great solution because the venn diagram of „good at people managing“ and „good at engineering“ is not anywhere close to a circle. In fact for any job this is largely true, to the point of being a media trope. Michael Scott in The Office is a fantastic salesman and a pretty terrible manager.