Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose
by sanderjd on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:02PM
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> someone has to create easy-to-consume version of technical work for executive consumption
Why? This seems to be true, but I honestly don't fully understand why.
Re:For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose
by clappski on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:13AM
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Because ultimately the executives are responsible for all the of decisions made in their area - superiors often need at least a layman’s understanding of the technical bits behind a proposal or an argument to be able to defend it to either A) their superiors or B) the stakeholders/shareholders.
You haven't been working in corporate america very long if you think powerpoint presentations are entertainment. :-)
There are people who do nothing but put together powerpoint presentations because a) someone has to create easy-to-consume version of technical work for executive consumption and b) its a hell of a lot cheaper and faster to have one low-level designer adapt my sketches than it is for me to stop my work and spend a week tweaking fonts and vector graphics.
Specialization has benefits to the company as a whole even if some of the specialists (in isolation) do not seem to be contributing much from the perspective of an observer. They are force-multipliers for the people who truly do. I have grown to respect the value that executive assistants provide even though it seems like all they do is schedule meetings, its a huge context shift and time suck to do it myself.