> In knowledge industries managers aren’t leaders, they are support staff. The best software managers and executives know this and do everything in their power to make it easy for the actual leaders and experts, the IC doing the work (yes including that intern you just hired) to get on with it
That’s just lip service.
Who goes to the annual offsite, the quarterly planning, manages or sets the budget, decides on initiatives. Not the ICs
Why in companies that espouse this servant leadership nonsense does it take 3 months to get approval for a new monitor?
This whole “servant leadership” crap is just PR. Every year there is a new orange coloured book about Leadership and some new cult-like idea filters down the layers.
But companies are the same hierarchy they have been for hundreds of years.
Completely agree and in my specific company they have this concept of "Highest Performers" who get to go to an annual offsite/party for a week. Guess who only gets picked? Directors and VPs. It's almost satirical how unaware leadership is or the optics they emit.
You and I might have worked at the same company. They’d call it the Top-100 Summit or whatever, where the “best innovators” would gather to decide the direction of the product lines. Who were these “top” innovators? You already said it: Directors and VPs. Comical.
That’s just lip service.
Who goes to the annual offsite, the quarterly planning, manages or sets the budget, decides on initiatives. Not the ICs
Why in companies that espouse this servant leadership nonsense does it take 3 months to get approval for a new monitor?
This whole “servant leadership” crap is just PR. Every year there is a new orange coloured book about Leadership and some new cult-like idea filters down the layers.
But companies are the same hierarchy they have been for hundreds of years.