If you want management to tell you explicitly what to do, expect management to be paid MUCH more than you. And if it's explicitly not your job, hopefully you n

If you want management to tell you explicitly what to do, expect management to be paid MUCH more than you. And if it's explicitly not your job, hopefully you never question or disagree? (And yet... if your management is expected to make all the calls themselves, in practice, that's gonna risk getting it wrong more frequently - there's only so much time in the day to be fully up to speed on all the decisions and branch points in plans.) Complexity is fractal, you can often find important solutions to important problems as an individual without needing to be "crowdsourcing the direction of the company." Good individuals who can let their managers focus on organizational things and solve technical things are valuable. Otherwise, if you just execute a list of tasks, you're pretty interchangeable.