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> As a manager, I actually find people doing "big picture" thinking quite annoying to deal with That's a bold statement. You've made your job easier, at the co
by groby_b 4y ago
> As a manager, I actually find people doing "big picture" thinking quite annoying to deal with
That's a bold statement. You've made your job easier, at the cost of creating a culture of "not my job". You assume you can handle all the big picture yourself. That way lies micromanagement.
Maybe your team requires that right now. Only you know. But you should also ask yourself why you sound like your team is annoying you. In the quote above, in "to hear them tell it", "some people just can't handle it".
- rhtgrg 4y agoI wouldn't try and argue with someone who retorts to stress by asking you whether you work more than 40 hours a week, which is like telling a foie gras goose that actually it spends less time a day eating than most other poultry.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoEspecially when they’ve made it clear that admitting to more than 40 hours per week is an official problem!
- groby_b 4y agoA while ago, I would have agreed. I've long since learned that the reason our industry has the management problems it has because we don't prepare people for leadership. At all. We just throw them in the grinder and hope it works out. This means there are a lot of people who see stress and work that way because they don't know any better. A lot of people who think it's "manager vs. team". I can't cure that by myself, but as long as I can offer nudges to rethink that, I will. Like almost every systemic problem, it only gets fixed if a large number of us keeps trying to fix it. (That said, I certainly get being tired of trying to :)