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Peter Drucker proposes this (that as more is automated, more people end up as effective managers) in "The Effective Executive" over fifty years ago. But I have

Peter Drucker proposes this (that as more is automated, more people end up as effective managers) in "The Effective Executive" over fifty years ago. But I have a blog I'm half in the middle of that dives deeper here. The manager is less "superman" and more a collection of part time jobs, one of which is to be contextual hubs for the organization. Within most IT organizations, it is their job to gather information from across and outside the organization. That isn't as much a "superhuman" job as much as a role that takes a job. The real problem is that we tied "people management" to this job. I don't think that's a necessary feature but rather a historical coincidence.

lifeisstillgood 3y ago
Hmmm, please point us to the blog post when it’s out - sounds good. I think you are pointing at a disaggregation of the manager role - and I agree My take on the various roles is - (Model, Monitor, Mentor) - resource allocation - hierarchical politics (ensuring the continued existence of the hierarchy and shifting currents within that hierarchy for rights to resource allocation. Certainly not significant rethinking of hierarchy) The first two are replaceable by software, resource allocation and hire by politics are replaceable by democracy. The combination of software and democracy in our organisations threatens everything