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As someone with newly minted managing responsibilities, and some training in management as well, learn by doing is hella tricky and hard. I think people that st
by pvdoom 3y ago
As someone with newly minted managing responsibilities, and some training in management as well, learn by doing is hella tricky and hard. I think people that start off as managers also go through this, and there is so much that you have to learn by fucking it up, running into problems, and pissing people off, when you want to help them.
- drjasonharrison 3y agoI really hope this isn't universally true. While management training varies across industry and activity, and while there are lots of jokes about managers, the actual percentage of large disasters that occur under newly minted managers must be somewhat low otherwise the world would grind to a halt regularly. Yes, software development / engineering may hold a special place due to frequency of "doing things we've never done before". Everything cannot rest on the manager's shoulders otherwise they are bottleneck and their previously-skilled peers are suddenly incompetent without them at their level.
- pvdoom 3y agoIt's not so much large disasters, as it is small bumps along the way, that most of the time the teams recover from. The thing is the things you learn about are often more subtle and happen on different time scales when you encounter them in the real world. And a lot of the time the work happens despite managers.