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Oh how I don’t miss those days of management. It because a theory of mine that a large part of my job function was to simultaneously water down accountability
by buffet_overflow 4y ago
Oh how I don’t miss those days of management.
It because a theory of mine that a large part of my job function was to simultaneously water down accountability from above, while adding enough complexity to the layers below me to discourage them from changing the status quo.
The double edged sword being, without that authority, that same power structure is forced on me, and now I’m more aware of it.
- rich_sasha 4y agoI have a feeling being in middle management leads to that squeeze. If you're closer to the doing, you are more isolated from the companyspeak nonsense. If you are in the upper part of the food chain, you get to enjoy more influence, freedom, a better risk/reward tradeoff, with costs you mention. In the middle you're kind of screwed from both ends.
- AlgorithmicTime 4y ago[dead]
- flashgordon 4y agoI had a couple of accidental ah-ha moments about this. Before I got into management all managers (fully up the stack) seemed like pointy hairs bosses. But what is easy to miss in Dilbert is that the PHB is really part of exec suite and rarely your front line manager. A hated front line manager might be usually incompetent or just inexperienced than evil! The other thing was demonization of front line managers. There was always a terrible (there are definitely terrible traits) managers but never terrible "leaders". Even worse was you'd see articles by hr "influencers" expounding this. Where are the same hr loud speakers now that "leadership" is the one inflicting these layoffs and ridiculous policies?