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@moseskagan I think one of the curious undercurrents of the last few decades is that the cost of competent management, of all forms, has probably risen faster than productivity, general wages, etc.
Among other things, society’s free lunches got priced.
Among other things, society’s free lunches got priced.
@moseskagan And so people might not be strictly imagining it when they say “Why back in my day you could get a solid lad with a good mind for paperwork to cover 40 units for …”
Yeah, you could. His kid is now a PM at Google, having had absolutely no desire to schedule plumbers for living.
Yeah, you could. His kid is now a PM at Google, having had absolutely no desire to schedule plumbers for living.
@moseskagan And as the cost of competent managers has risen we’ve had demand for managers absolutely explode, for general “the bureaucracy must expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy” reasons.
A lot of those marginal ones are get-what-you-paid-for-and-get-it-hard types.
A lot of those marginal ones are get-what-you-paid-for-and-get-it-hard types.
@moseskagan A family member who is a card-carrying member of the PMC in a high-status organization was fulminating to me that his last few PMs had been nincompoops.
“$NAME, you want someone young and ambitious. You are young and ambitious. How does PM strike you as a calling?”
“Oh eff that”
“$NAME, you want someone young and ambitious. You are young and ambitious. How does PM strike you as a calling?”
“Oh eff that”
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