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Not only does this article make it your job teach the manager how to do their job, the article does not admit a cardinal truth: the manager unnecessarily eats i
by Grothendank 4y ago
Not only does this article make it your job teach the manager how to do their job, the article does not admit a cardinal truth: the manager unnecessarily eats into the value that you produce and should therefore be eaten in turn. If you can manage up, you can eliminate the manager, and gain your total share of the value production.
Now THAT is a superpower.
- Raidion 4y agoYou can't eliminate a manager just by managing up. Do you want to be making the calls of who gets put on a PIP and managing them through it (or out?). Do you want to sit in meetings talking about business priorities and advocate for yourself and your coworkers? Do you want to be the one to manage compliance concerns around process for yourself and your co workers? If yes, are you then going to complain about meetings and how you can't get anything done? Bad managers are clearly bad, but good managers make it look super easy and boring because hard business priorities get communicated as a simple and well crafted message, employee issues are handled without fuss and out of sight before they become big issues, and compliance and audit concerns are solved at a system/process level before being rolled out to teams.
- eggsmediumrare 4y agoGreat, you can do two jobs for the price of one.