Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?

Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by eksemplar on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:16AM (#15033979)

There is an inherent safety in having four average employee write something rather than using your unicorn. It's safe because three of them will still be around to manage it when one of them gets a new job, cancer or retires.

On top of that, your unicorns are only really worth their wages if they are solving problems no one else can or if they are mentoring others.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by tropshop on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:56AM (#15034361)

Or, the group of four writes something an order of magnitude more complex. It becomes difficult to make changes, estimates grow, and execution is consistently buggy.

With the right unicorn, one can act swiftly, groom a lean architecture, and make instinctive calls that move the needle of the entire roadmap. Real unicorns present sound technical strategies and inspire new opportunities that help push the company to the next level.

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