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The team was excellent and I admit that I probably deserved it. I didn't have friends in that city and I was a work addict, which is a very bad situation to per

by tajen 11y ago

The team was excellent and I admit that I probably deserved it. I didn't have friends in that city and I was a work addict, which is a very bad situation to perform well and get recognition. A few things could have been done and I'm certainly disappointed he didn't do them. I've left that company two years ago, came back to my home country and created my own company. He takes news often, like other colleagues, but he never admitted that he preferred me out, so I wonder what he really expected. I believe I've mitigated the bad situation by leaving. But I was really asking about the team lead. Even for others, you drive a team by prioritizing a backlog and communicating. But if you do things your employees don't like, it's the same story, they still have to work hard and perform best. At what moment is leadership involved in being a manager, rather than natural subordination from the employees?

dbg31415 11y ago
This is hard. Best case, your manager was someone who was good at what the team he managed did... and wanted to stop being good at that and waste all his time in meetings. Ha. You have a valid point... and that is to say that leadership doesn't have to be from the managers only. But often they're the only ones who (because of all the damn meetings) have a full view of what's going on with the company, their competitors, and with the market as a whole. The amount of time I devote to not coding... it makes me good at things that aren't coding. The amount of time my trusted tech lead puts into coding and helping train junior devs (so they'll hit me up for raises) is also staggering. I miss having a hands-on job, but it's sort of a question of "who are you doing it for?" He's doing it for the staff, and I guess indirectly the company. But I would say I do it for the company, and when the company is healthy that indirectly helps the staff. You're going to need both kinds of leadership.

by tajen 11y ago

dbg31415 11y ago

This is hard. Best case, your manager was someone who was good at what the team he managed did... and wanted to stop being good at that and waste all his time in meetings. Ha. You have a valid point... and that is to say that leadership doesn't have to be from the managers only. But often they're the only ones who (because of all the damn meetings) have a full view of what's going on with the company, their competitors, and with the market as a whole. The amount of time I devote to not coding... it makes me good at things that aren't coding. The amount of time my trusted tech lead puts into coding and helping train junior devs (so they'll hit me up for raises) is also staggering. I miss having a hands-on job, but it's sort of a question of "who are you doing it for?" He's doing it for the staff, and I guess indirectly the company. But I would say I do it for the company, and when the company is healthy that indirectly helps the staff. You're going to need both kinds of leadership.