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The most important managers are the ones that serve as an actual translation layer bridging the gap between corporate business speak and developers. I’m remind

• klodolph 2y ago
  At my most recent jobs, it’s been middle and lower management that was most prone to corporate business speak, and upper management had an incredible and somewhat fearsome ability to cut through bullshit. Depends on who your managers are, what company you’re in, and what department or org your team is part of. Some recent teams I was on the middle managers spoke clearly and directly, but the frontline managers equivocated, were evasive, or even told lies. TBH I think it was just another case of Peter Principle. The middle managers were good managers who got put in charge of organizations, but they couldn’t train or develop good managers below them.
• sam_bristow 2y ago
  I think this is the article you're refering to [1]. The most frustrating manager I've had felt like they were just a layer of indirection to the rest of the business. Every meeting I was in with them was basically a readout of another meeting. No new insights or synthesis of new information. I have also had managers who are great at linking the wider strategic goals of the organisation to their team's work. They were rare and worth their weight in gold. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506984