Re:Unlike Babies, the Best Managers Come with Instructions
by mharroun on Sunday November 10, 2019 @12:21PM
(#21498952)
Ugh as someone with 12 years of experience and about 8 ish in a teach lead/management role. This seems super weird to me.
An Engineering Manger/Director/VP/CTO's main job is 2 things.
- To be the over arching intermediate between engineering and other business units (note: this does not mean walling off engineering, engineers SHOULD understand and work with business units when it makes sense).
- To support, mentor, shield, and basically do what ever is necessary for their team/department/org to be as successful as possible.
This sounds VERY self centered and I honestly believe product and engineering managers need to be to most selfless people possible to actually be effective. I would call it backwards even... a leader/manager needs to tailor himself and his approach to both his people and his cross-department equals in order to be the most successful.
An Engineering Manger/Director/VP/CTO's main job is 2 things.
- To be the over arching intermediate between engineering and other business units (note: this does not mean walling off engineering, engineers SHOULD understand and work with business units when it makes sense).
- To support, mentor, shield, and basically do what ever is necessary for their team/department/org to be as successful as possible.
This sounds VERY self centered and I honestly believe product and engineering managers need to be to most selfless people possible to actually be effective. I would call it backwards even... a leader/manager needs to tailor himself and his approach to both his people and his cross-department equals in order to be the most successful.