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Conscious unbossing
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Re: Conscious unbossing
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, I don't know - in my (admittedly limited and very individual / company-specific) experience, the senior management was hard to relate to from the perspective of us rank and file, but clearly had the Sword of Damocles over their head at all times, and tended to get swept away arbitrarily every few years as the winds of corporate politics changes direction. It seemed to require some exceptional execution (or luck)…
I wish. The higher up the rank you go in my company, the more recognizable the faces are from 10,15,even 20 years ago. Sure, they shuffle the deckchairs, but the turnover and redundancies below them is orders of more chaotic, and I dont understand what it takes to clean house at the senior management level.
Usually a buyout or merger.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, huh, good catch. More of their quotes are just theaurus-substitution rephrasings: > Lucy concludes: “It’s clear mid-level management remains a lynchpin of any organisation, and to keep these roles filled employers need to innovate their strategies to make them more attractive ... > Martin concludes: “It’s clear that mid-level management is a cornerstone of any organization. To fill these roles, employers will nee…
This is kind of a dirty semi-secret of corporate PR. When a press release or other company-authored article includes "[Person's Name] says [Thing]," there is not necessarily a Person with that name, and even if there is, that Person didn't literally say the Thing. "Thing" is the narrative that the company wants to push, and they attribute "Thing" to some name and publish it as if it's a news article with a quote. I w…
That’s a lot of words to say “companies sometimes blatantly lie in public statements”.
Re: Conscious unbossing
#104The oldest Gen-z is still in their late 20s or early 30s. Could be that could change in about 10 years?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is kind of a dirty semi-secret of corporate PR. When a press release or other company-authored article includes "[Person's Name] says [Thing]," there is not necessarily a Person with that name, and even if there is, that Person didn't literally say the Thing. "Thing" is the narrative that the company wants to push, and they attribute "Thing" to some name and publish it as if it's a news article with a quote. I w…
There's also the bizarre story of Greg Packer, a highway maintenance worker who has been quoted hundreds of times as a "man in the street" in the New York Times and other papers. He apparently just likes being first in line for events and ends up talking to the media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Packer
> Packer's other claim to fame: being the first person in the world to buy an iPhone, on June 29, 2007 at Apple Fifth Avenue in New York City, after having camped out for five days in front of the store.
Another source for that information is greg’s own blog, note the domain name too: https://firstinline.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/hello-world/
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#106"it is never too late to start a career in middle management" goes the old joke
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#107I'm 23. I don't want to 'manage' anybody. I want to be in a team where I'm a facilitator and advocate. If people need to be 'managed' that is a red flag to me, and it isn't worth the slightly better paycheck.
This comment cuts straight to my immediate thought when reading - did they dig into the separate bits that people thought a managers job entailed, and which bits where appealing or not?
Cos apparently* "double the amount (30%) would opt for a flat, team-based structure if given the choice" so team work is seen as important.
So what functions would people like in a team? Mentors? Facilitators? Which of these might they actually want to do themselves if it wasn't seen as tainted by the phrase "middle management"?
* I can't see any link to actual data or what questions were used, so we are all working of a thin PR statement which isn't the best.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
My understanding is that all corporate positions above rank and file — and especially the C-levels — live in a meat grinder where the only viabile strat is "figure out how to kill competition on the corporate chaos/ladder before it kills you". Of course this acts as a filtering mechanism to refine psychopathy and their decision tree about how to treat their labor force, the communities their corporations exist within…
Then again, these people always fail upward. They may have the sword hanging over them, but when the sword falls and they leave, they do so with a fist full of millions of dollars in Golden Parachute, and then float over to Level+1 at the next company.
Well you don't get to those positions without handling metric buttloads of blackmail, and that's largely all a golden parachute really is: wealthy psychopaths caching out on all of the markers and dirt they have on everyone else when they leave. :P
Re: Conscious unbossing
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
All of the replies to GP sound like desperate attempts not to self-identify as a middle manager. GP's definition matches common usage: To people not invested in this game, if you are manager at a large company and not C-suite, you're a middle manager.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s more than a little like someone who isn’t invested in football calling everyone on defense a “defensive back”. Middle management is a term of art referring to a specific role that works quite differently from the more common first line managers. Insisting on it as a catch-all term accomplishes nothing but making things more confusing.
To me, it reads as the exhibit A of the point of the article coming from a GenZer that just can't be bothered to understand the org chart if even be bothered to look at it. To them, you have the workers, and then management. Anyone above them is old and out of touch and just receives eye rolls
Re: Conscious unbossing
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, huh, good catch. More of their quotes are just theaurus-substitution rephrasings: > Lucy concludes: “It’s clear mid-level management remains a lynchpin of any organisation, and to keep these roles filled employers need to innovate their strategies to make them more attractive ... > Martin concludes: “It’s clear that mid-level management is a cornerstone of any organization. To fill these roles, employers will nee…
This is kind of a dirty semi-secret of corporate PR. When a press release or other company-authored article includes "[Person's Name] says [Thing]," there is not necessarily a Person with that name, and even if there is, that Person didn't literally say the Thing. "Thing" is the narrative that the company wants to push, and they attribute "Thing" to some name and publish it as if it's a news article with a quote. I w…
Yes this. In an old job i got "quoted" a number of times. Sometimes by my company. Sometimes by the relevant trade press. They'd always double check it with me, and 100% of the time it was way less offensive than what I'd have said. It worked out well for everyone.