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Funnily enough, the best managers I've had are all in the late 40s - mid 50s that all did 20 years in the "trenches" and decided that management was the new pat
by no_wizard 3y ago
Funnily enough, the best managers I've had are all in the late 40s - mid 50s that all did 20 years in the "trenches" and decided that management was the new path forward for them as they started to prefer people work to technical work.
I think its work experience that matters most with management. You need folks who are people oriented but understand the job that the folks they manage are doing, and the challenges that come with it, both obvious and non obvious, and can communicate the importance of such work to the broader organization
- gopher_space 3y agoThere was an article posted here a month or so ago about how this guy was seeing a new class of worker emerge who both understood the necessity of absorbing knowledge from other domains and enjoyed the process. It reminded me of a dev I worked with who'd go on smoke breaks with the art department and then change data structures we'd been using forever.
- bumby 3y agoI was under the assumption this type of worker is what dominated before the industrial revolution constrained people to a small domain in a process. Some may call it artisan, dilettante, etc. Maybe the narrow-domain specialist was the anomaly and not the rule when we expand our lens across history.
- QuercusMax 3y agoI assume these "smoke breaks with the art department" involved more than just tobacco.... :D