Re:Ask HN: Beyond CRUD and ETL – How to Grow Professionally?
by tonyarkles on Saturday October 31, 2015 @11:57PM
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I think the point was that it's not necessarily technical skills that land someone in that role; it's vision, execution, ability to get shit done, and politics.
Re:Ask HN: Beyond CRUD and ETL – How to Grow Professionally?
by davismwfl on Monday November 02, 2015 @09:01AM
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Sorry for the late reply, but yes, the biggest difference is the ability to be politically aware, and learning how to keep your team out of the politics as much as possible so they can get the job done.
Getting stuff done at any organization is more about finding out who the stakeholders are and getting as many to neutral or positive as possible so that you can execute. But in a large politicized organization it requires significantly more political navigating and energy compared to say a startup where usually a good idea can win even if the person isn't that great at the politics.
I wish you could expand on this topic. I agree with you and I cannot articulate why being a director in a larger company does not have anything to do with raw skills. For example Exxon Mobile Director of Products & Innovation could work at Dell as a Director of Products & Innovation and they will possibly do a better job than Facebook's Director of Products or Google's at that same position.