Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power
by emma-w on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:13PM
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>And of course the author knows.
Author here, I don't actually know, I'm still learning.
But I know that by observation most of my peers are truly ignorant and just winging it.
Fixing that would make life better for everyone.
Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power
by Tarucho on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:34AM
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>Author here, I don't actually know
Why are you writing authoritatively about something you know you don´t actually know then?
Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power
by emma-w on Friday September 10, 2021 @12:34PM
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Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date. From where I sit it looks to me like they are more focused on milking endowments than discovering what is happening in the real world.
Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power
by s_fischer on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:20AM
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My take away was that the author doesn't necessarily claim to have all the answers here. It's more of a list of general guidance that is reverse engineered from the type of behavior the she observed was definitely unsuccessful.
>The services of a good leader is an important gap that development teams desperately need filled. However, very few managers know how to properly serve software development teams.
And of course the author knows.