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Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power by emma-w on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:13PM (#28477395)
>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.

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Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power by Tarucho on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:34AM (#28480609)
>Author here, I don't actually know

Why are you writing authoritatively about something you know you don´t actually know then?

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Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power by emma-w on Friday September 10, 2021 @12:34PM (#28483897)
Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date.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.
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Re:Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power by s_fischer on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:20AM (#28481122)
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.
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