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Bad managers do that. Good managers accept accountability for the failures of their teams. Delegation makes a leader more accountable, not less.
by ryoshu 3y ago
Bad managers do that. Good managers accept accountability for the failures of their teams. Delegation makes a leader more accountable, not less.
- codesnik 3y agoI'd love to see an example of such an accepted accountability at least once in my life.
- Clubber 3y ago>I'd love to see an example of such an accepted accountability at least once in my life. I think that's the point, you wouldn't see it. If a good manager gets unreasonably or unfairly reamed by his boss, he's probably not gonna tell his team about it, because it would be a blow to morale. If it was indeed the team's dysfunction, he'd try to improve it.
- kevinventullo 3y agoNext time there’s a re-org, look around for managers who net lost reports, or even “decided to move on”.
- cratermoon 3y agoWhen I "decided to move on", that included deciding that management was likely not in the cards for me again. Companies that have IC staff+ roles are what attract me now.
- lupire 3y agoAnd go work for them because they were busy working instead of backstabbing politics? Meanwhile the most useless people are failing upward into CEO.
- arbitrage 3y agoI've seen it before. After that manager stepped in to help me, I would've stepped in front of a bus for him. That is the one time I had a manager like that in my entire career. It's rare, but it does happen.
- 11101010001100 3y agoIf you need your job to live, and taking accountability means any non-zero probability of losing your job, would you take accountability? Of course it is easy to answer an hypothetical.
- societyis 3y ago[dead]