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Upper management are just average people with better networking and less empathy. They fall for fads and FOMO just like everyone else.
by hibernator149 2y ago
Upper management are just average people with better networking and less empathy. They fall for fads and FOMO just like everyone else.
- candiodari 2y agoGenerously you could say they're reacting to the "real danger". The danger to them personally is that someone else does better at a currently fancy project and appears more capable than them to others.
- silviot 2y ago> Upper management are just average people with better networking and less empathy Very concise and to the point. I might print and hang this!
- jajko 2y agoAverage is downplaying their IQ IMHO, but I agree with the rest. And at the end, same result in both cases.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoI dont know why your up-playing their IQ. there may not be a ton of forrest gump tier dummies, but they're often profoundly average people. I've done consulting at F500 companies and was consistently not-impressed by director levels and above, dudes in tech for 30 years and didn't have an understanding of what "production" meant. Outsourcing literally their basic day to day job responsibilities to Accenture and McKinsey to the point where pretty much anyone reading HN could have been in their role. A lot was "flash" -- looking good, speaking grandly, and sticking to broad approaches that they could assign to a technical senior manager or contributor. And a lot of the time, to be honest, that worked: sometimes you just gotta motivate people with big gestures. But once it became time to actually get outside of the box and generate new ideas they were stuffed shirts.
- Workaccount2 2y agoI'd suggest working in the pits of blue collar work for a few years before deciding on what "average intelligence" is.