Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expert...
by codegeek on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:19AM
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The boss "should" be able to do most of your job BUT they Should not need/want to. Good bosses understand the word "delegation" and that is what it takes to build a real team and company. I am a boss and I can do most of my team's work (whether efficient or not) but I don't want to because I have higher priority things to do to get the most out of my time. For example, I can code but I don't (well mostly). I have a team of developers. I focus more on customers (existing and prospective). But then again, I have customer support folks who help with daily requests so that I am not answering every support question myself. Can I ? You bet. Would I ? Not if I want to scale my company further. If shit hits the fan, sure I will talk to a customer but I trust my team to take care of them before it gets to me.
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Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expert...
by p-sharma on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:20PM
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> For example, I can code
Not saying that this is true in your case but I have seen this too often that managers think they can code just because they did it 10 years ago. It's surprisingly hard to write good code when you are not in practice.
Re:Employees are happier when led by people with deep expert...
by ironmagma on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:42PM
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The part that really matters is that you can empathize with the work that is being done. The more distance you have between you and actually ever doing that kind of task, the less that empathy is. It’s the same as with customers — if you never do the user studies, you will not understand even if you once did.