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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by Iv on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:16AM (#15362673)
I think it all boils down to playing the blame game. It takes time to do so and implementing an idea takes a lot of time. Having an idea is the easiest thing ever.

I can have five ideas before lunch with time to spate on blaming the people who will actually implement them for the past failures of my "great ideas with poor implementation"

But engineers/implementers who get into politics have a huge advantage: they can produce proofs, especially in tech. Nothing is more scary for an executive type than an engineer who refuses to be bullied into accepting the blame.

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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by KKKKkkkk1 on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:49AM (#15362765)
But it really depends on how healthy your corporate culture is. I would say that in 90% of the companies, "technically correct" is just not good enough.
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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by btilly on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:03PM (#15366474)
To be fair, the first and last line of defense for most tech people is to retreat into technical detail and present an apparently irrefutable argument that nobody understands. It is impossible from the outside to tell whether this is just the tech person being defensive and they are full of BS, or whether the tech person is right. So people eventually default to assuming BS.
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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by Iv on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:59AM (#15365867)
Technically correct is not enough in a sane culture either. But the business side of thing is not complicated, it is opaque.

Be technically right, hunt the information that will make you correct business-wise. And you will be able to make a much stronger claim in the blame game that the guy who is just business-right.

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