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Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise by bluedino on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:56PM (#13483908)
>> I did not see a single engineer promoted to management

Good engineers don't necessarily mean good managers

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Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise by arijo on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:20PM (#13484187)
Being an engineer does not necessarily make you a bad manager though.
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Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise by steego on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:33PM (#13484330)
They don't, but my experience is more than half are good managers. The best ones I've found delegate by challenging their teams, but also follow up regularly on both an individual and team level. Even mediocre managers can be upgraded to effective managers if they're willing to learn from effective managers.
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Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise by FT_intern on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:13PM (#13486169)
The goal post is not "good manager". It is just "better than non-technical managers"
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Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise by jkern on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:10PM (#13484083)
isn't the entire point of this article the opposite?
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Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise by netghost on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:37PM (#13484399)
I think the point is that having some level of technical skills is important, but I don't think it alone will let you be a good manager.

Unfortunately, the article neither publishes the dataset, nor goes into it in much depth.

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