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> He told me that he had worked to develop a tool that would replace effectively all of the middle management function that he was responsible for: gathering information from folks below him, distilling it down and reporting that to people above him. Any manager whose job was this simple was on borrowed time anyway. I think the person was feeding you a story around the campfire to impress you. Real management work do…
No, this is exactly how Amazon management works. Members of a team creates a report explaining the state of their small section of the business, usually a 2x2 grid of boxes to fill. This is then reviewed, usually in an in person meeting that requires full team participation. These are joined together to create a weekly business review, that will require another meeting to review. Each month the WBRs are combined to c…
At least at companies where the upper management is aware enough of the details to make good judgements, and the business is critical enough for some reason that low level management can't just be entrusted to yeet/yolo-things into production?