Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc...
by PragmaticPulp on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:52PM
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> To play devils advocate: If he was as brilliant as you imply perhaps he SHOULD have been the one making the key decisions under his purview anyway.
I think you missed the point.
It's easy to operate in a vacuum. If you maneuver yourself into a position where you can only ever operate in a vacuum, you avoid the real difficult work: Coordination, communication, cooperation. That work doesn't just disappear, though. The rest of the team has to pick up the slack, fix the leftover bugs, work around the lone wolf's quirks, and so on.
If a project requires more than a single person to scale, then those people need to work together as peers. If you let one person run away with the fun work and leave everyone else to clean up the bugs and pick up the scraps, it's not a sustainable situation.
I think you missed the point.
It's easy to operate in a vacuum. If you maneuver yourself into a position where you can only ever operate in a vacuum, you avoid the real difficult work: Coordination, communication, cooperation. That work doesn't just disappear, though. The rest of the team has to pick up the slack, fix the leftover bugs, work around the lone wolf's quirks, and so on.
If a project requires more than a single person to scale, then those people need to work together as peers. If you let one person run away with the fun work and leave everyone else to clean up the bugs and pick up the scraps, it's not a sustainable situation.