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This isn't just filling in your TPS reports. This is a manager completely failing at his job, making him fail his employees, and showing the failing of his mana
by pbiggar 14y ago
This isn't just filling in your TPS reports. This is a manager completely failing at his job, making him fail his employees, and showing the failing of his manager.
I agree with the rest of what you're saying, but I think you're greatly understating the problem.
- mapgrep 14y agoWhen one (of many) underlings falls far short on one (of many) company edicts and you don't know about it, that's not "completely failing" as a manager.
- biafra 14y agoHe is completely failing because he did not meet one on one within 6 month? I must have worked with completely failing managers for my whole career over the last 16 years.
- wpietri 14y agoWell, there are a lot of completely failing managers out there, so that's plausible. When I started managing people I read and thought a lot about what management was about, and who my good and bad managers were. I came to the same conclusion as Ben Horowitz did here: my main job was to make sure that my people were happy and had what they needed to get their jobs done. And that it was impossible to do that that without directly talking with them, one on one, on a regular basis. Of course, that had absolutely no relation to the skills that got me to the point of managing people, so it's no surprise to me that many managers never figure that out.
- pbiggar 14y agoNo, he's completely failing because the CEO identified regular one-on-one's with team members as a high priority, and he wasn't doing it.
- rhizome 14y agoHe's completely failing at his job if and only if his entire job is to ensure that the 1:1s occur, which would be just as bad as being "Steve" in the meeting described in the article.