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You can think of most managers as being actors. Their main job is to project the correct image in order to legitimate their role and fend off internal competiti
by MrBuddyCasino 4y ago
You can think of most managers as being actors. Their main job is to project the correct image in order to legitimate their role and fend off internal competition. Is becomes more true the higher you go in the hierarchy.
- subpixel 4y agoThis is eerily, scarily true and what’s more it works. I loathe Zuckerberg but his insistence that managers contribute or leave is exactly what my org needs. Unfortunately this is the sort of change that’s basically impossible when so many people’s power is vested in it not happening.
- bosie 4y agoI get the idea but how is “contribute” measured for managers?
- subpixel 4y agoEasy - they get paid have some additional responsibilities on top of a standard job. It would be better to have several of these than a single manager who only has meetings all day and is disconnected from the actual work of producing value.
- bosie 4y agoNot sure I follow, a manager can have a huge impact (one way or another) on the final product and hence can produce great value. My question was how to measure that, your reply did not answer that?
- pjc50 4y agoSpecifically, managers produce "managerness" which is consumed by others in the organisation. This goes all the way up to the C-Suite which need to project "CEOness" in the theatre of VC presentations and investor calls. Sometimes you find overt borrowing of theatrical techniques, like Elizabeth Holmes getting voice training.
- FooBarBizBazz 4y agoGives new meaning to "performance review".