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Kneejerk reactions to the last kneejerk reaction, due to someone upending the status quo by being a good idea fairy and updating policy so as not to go by tribal knowledge. During the upheaval, it is revealed that the change was policy all along, but was disregarded for being inefficient. So instead of writing policy around the method that works, a square peg gets pushed through a round hole for the sake of leadership ego and trying to leave their mark.
- Manager has been there for 5+ years.
- Manager doesn’t do any work.
- All responsibility to deliver is on team, not leadership.
- Leadership takes over ownership at the end of a successful project to promote themselves.
- Pizza parties with free beer
Manager has been there for 5+ years.
In my experience this is fine, it’s the ones who never stay in a role for more than two years you’ve got to watch out for. They seem to use each position as a temporary stepping stone on their career climb and rarely care about the team or the product!
Yeah. Two years is just about long enough for a company to figure out that a manager is useless.
External hire managers are the worst, they come in and have no idea how the company/product/department works (not their fault) so they tend to rely on sales-guru style tactics and rhetoric that just end up costing a bunch of time sucking each other off instead of, ya know, getting the job done.
How is this not political? Deciding how resources will be allocated is political. Evaluating how resources are allocated is political. The fact that someone considers something evidently political as not political is political (search for “depoliticization” online).
