AI is the key factor in this decision, not a small line without its own bullet 😜. It dramatically expands capabilities, making augmented senior ICs the new standard. AI accelerates career progression, enabling everyone to reach senior levels faster and seniors to advance to principal roles more quickly. This is mostly true today, and will be more solidified in the next 18-24 months.
There’s more. The challenge is that we ask the manager to do 4 jobs
- strategy/plannjng - what we need to do
- project management - ensure it gets done
- coaching - helping people succeed
- stakeholder management- up and sideways - negotiate, solve conflicts, sell
Is almost impossible to master all.
The risk is organizations that promote people great at stakeholder or project management but with lousy strategy. Or a great strategy that never gets executed.
I think tha hardest part in learning to delegate is to lose the warm comfort of direct control everything.
AI is the key factor in this decision, not a small line without its own bullet 😜. It dramatically expands capabilities, making augmented senior ICs the new standard. AI accelerates career progression, enabling everyone to reach senior levels faster and seniors to advance to principal roles more quickly. This is mostly true today, and will be more solidified in the next 18-24 months.
It's ironic that a post titled "You don't have to be a manager" is sponsored by Sidecar, which... requires you to be a manager! ;)
(Not to take anything away from the post, I just thought that was a funny juxtaposition.)
There’s more. The challenge is that we ask the manager to do 4 jobs
- strategy/plannjng - what we need to do
- project management - ensure it gets done
- coaching - helping people succeed
- stakeholder management- up and sideways - negotiate, solve conflicts, sell
Is almost impossible to master all.
The risk is organizations that promote people great at stakeholder or project management but with lousy strategy. Or a great strategy that never gets executed.
We need to unbundle this.