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> The middle manager who is awful at their job and so insecure they need to "see employees working" is costing the business What makes you think upper manageme
by onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago
> The middle manager who is awful at their job and so insecure they need to "see employees working" is costing the business
What makes you think upper management in public companies isn't mos interested in self-preservation also?
The idea that upper management is some benevolent and wise dictator while middle management is a different class of incompetent morons is strange.
They're cut from the same cloth.
- hnfong 3y agoThere's often an alignment problem where upper management often has some stake/ownership in the business being successful, where the lower/middle managers might see their work as just a salaried job, and hence not as driven to work for the success of the company, and might optimize for things like their own ego when it costs the company money. There's only so much upper management can do to set incentives (Goodhart's law) without micromanaging the middle managers.