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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by spike021 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:16PM (#34702726)
>the best managers I've worked with were not good ICs

Reminds me of baseball. Many of the best managers weren't the best when they were players. Some never even made it to the major leagues. But as a manager/coach they're incredibly well-regarded.

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by chiefalchemist on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:26PM (#34703311)
Managers don't have to have the hands on skills. What's more important is their understanding of the players, and making players better than they would be otherwise.

Those well-regarded managers are often so because they create a whole greater than the parts. Average managers break even. Bad managers decrease value.

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Re:Meta to Ask Many Managers to Become Individual Contributo... by itsdrewmiller on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:34PM (#34703353)
Isn't the research on baseball managers that they are in fact nearly useless?

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-managers-are-heade...

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