It’s almost as if most middle management is completely unnecessary and a massive drain on resources if they feel that most of their time should be spent monitoring their employees.
When a MM is good they’re extremely effective by clearly directing their team to the work top levels want done… But that assumes top levels know what needs to be done, can communicate it, the MM understands those priorities, and can apply top priorities to specific details of the team’s work.
My manager does what I think is the most effective form of middle management. He’s there to take on any blockers that I cannot solve myself. Otherwise, he just lets me do my work.
Though 9/10 times the blockers are created by other teams middle management 🙃. Either them not wanting to share their code, or them not wanting to work with me at all when it’s necessary to achieve my work. And yes it’s really as stupid as it sounds.
It’s almost as if most middle management is completely unnecessary and a massive drain on resources if they feel that most of their time should be spent monitoring their employees.
When a MM is good they’re extremely effective by clearly directing their team to the work top levels want done… But that assumes top levels know what needs to be done, can communicate it, the MM understands those priorities, and can apply top priorities to specific details of the team’s work.
My manager does what I think is the most effective form of middle management. He’s there to take on any blockers that I cannot solve myself. Otherwise, he just lets me do my work.
Though 9/10 times the blockers are created by other teams middle management 🙃. Either them not wanting to share their code, or them not wanting to work with me at all when it’s necessary to achieve my work. And yes it’s really as stupid as it sounds.
I disagree.
When a team is good, they don’t need to be managed.
Also, when management is good (like the example above), they don’t need the extra delegation.
Our regional manager quit, area manager went on a 2 week vacation and we all did better with them gone. Wonder why…