Years ago, very early in my career, I rotated among a few teams at the company, and even then, one manager stood out as different from the others. I straight-up asked him if he had a philosophy or something, and this is what he said:
"Yeah, my job as a manager has three parts. First, get the right people for the job. Second, get them the resources they need. Third, get everything else out of their way."
Decades later, this still rings true. That team was the most productive I've ever seen.
He left my place of work recently and as a result I’m leaving too. Good managers are rare as leprechaun gold.
It’s a world of difference from the manager I had at my first job out of university who was more interested in their own job security and didn’t give a shit about his reports.
what's the title? the number of books on programming with directx sort of drowns out the search results.
Renegades of the Empire
"A manager's responsibility is to remove any roadblocks from the path of an engineer. If an engineer is coming down a hallway and there is a chair in the path blocking that engineer, then it is the manager's responsibility to remove the chair from the path so that the engineer is not troubled." :)