Would you please fuck off Brad? I know this system better than you do. Photo by Jonathan Borba from Pexels. Free under Unsplash license.

The Overblown Importance of Management

What do you even do here, anyway?

“It’s a shame that brilliant individual contributors feel that they need to become managers.”

That quote was from someone in a senior role that I used to work with. He couldn’t understand why this was the case, wishing that they would see non-managerial careers as good and successful as well. My hackles raised…