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What is so amazing about someone who throws themselves under the bus? Shouldn't a manager increase the probability of success?
by osigurdson 3y ago
What is so amazing about someone who throws themselves under the bus? Shouldn't a manager increase the probability of success?
- LargeWu 3y agoIt's about shielding the team from the consequences of failure. A good manager will say "If my team failed it's because I did not prepare them well enough/lead them well enough/manage expectations well enough". this is what ownership looks like. It is orthogonal to probability of failure.
- osigurdson 3y agoWhat is the actual utility of this however? Instead of trying to determine who is to blame, why not try to identify areas of improvement?
- Mordisquitos 3y agoHence why a good manager "throws themselves under the bus" in the event of failure — the manager failed to increase the probability of success.
- osigurdson 3y agoI like this take a lot. This assumes that authority, competence and responsibility are aligned. However, this is often not the case in "modern" management as authority is spread very thin and responsibility is fluid (highly dependent on outcome).