Maybe it is time we acknowledge that tech skills are a core requirement in today's world.
Maybe it is hard to communicate with people who lack a fundamental understanding of the critical tools they use.
Maybe it is hard to communicate with people who lack a fundamental understanding of the critical tools they use.
If you don't understand how to write software it's like not understanding how to run a newsroom for a newspaper - you simply won't make the right decision often enough no matter how clever you are
It may seem like a ridiculous idea for a floral delivery service. But if you know your people enough to trust them or not trust them, you don't have to be an expert in everything to make the right decisions.
Which brings us a full circle to the nerds hating the suits because they want to quantify the unquantifiable.
OR, you could just go with what the experts say and be tagged a pushover.
If we think of management as "coach / therapist" (ie the eight rules of google management" then yeah, the goal of management is to take a team of high performers and help them not to implode. But I don't see that as "management"
I think there are better definitions