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Re:Advantages of Incompetent Management by ang_cire on Saturday July 06, 2024 @11:13PM (#40895011)
Unnecessary hierarchy is a cancer. CEO's aren't geniuses or rockstars, and if executives can't convince their employees- the actual technical people who will implement whatever plan is- that a given plan is the right one, 99% of the time that means it's not.

Good management is about leading people (i.e. who follow voluntarily), not dragging people along.

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Re:Advantages of Incompetent Management by LeFantome on Saturday July 06, 2024 @11:20PM (#40895042)
A good summary of what I was trying to say is that most companies could do with more leadership and less management.

It sounds like we agree.

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Re:Advantages of Incompetent Management by throwaway7ahgb on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:46AM (#40897250)
A very important distinction, in my "Creo" example above, our company specifically used the word "leadership" for the founders and other "leads" of the company.

Nobody used the word manager or boss annd anyone could be in a leadership role, it was based on meritocracy.

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