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It isn't? Whoever inherits the role will have the same issues, so how isn't swapping teams punting the issue to someone else?
> Employees have 0 responsibility or incentive to improve their managers (the converse is not true).
Employees have a responsibility to make sure their job gets done, and can (and should) identify obstructions to that happening.
> there’s probably only single digit % of managers who would take that positively, if even.
'Managing up' is a well-known and fairly common skill at large companies.
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It isn't? Whoever inherits the role will have the same issues, so how isn't swapping teams punting the issue to someone else?
> Employees have 0 responsibility or incentive to improve their managers (the converse is not true).
Employees have a responsibility to make sure their job gets done, and can (and should) identify obstructions to that happening.
> there’s probably only single digit % of managers who would take that positively, if even.
'Managing up' is a well-known and fairly common skill at large companies.