Thread by @allenholub

There's a notion floating around that one of the main jobs of a manager is to buffer/protect the team from the rest of the organization. Has anybody given a moment to think how bonkers that is? 1/5

I've never seen a job advert that says "we're an extremely fu***d up organization and there's nothing we can do to fix that, so one of your main jobs is to protect the people who are doing the work from the rest of us." 2/5

The jobs all call for people to control the out-of-control teams (which is just as bonkers). The adverts all effectively say "the teams of full of lazy unmotivated bozos with the attention spans of gnats and we need you to keep them on time and in budget" 3/5

How well do you think it will go over if the boss who think's they're hiring a controller is told by that controller that controlling is "not my job"? You won't last long. Believe me. 4/5

Surely, the best solution to all this is to fix the organization so that the teams don't need to be protected, and they're motivated (Relatedness, Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose) to do good work on their own. But then, you don't need managers at all! 5/5