Asking for a Friend
What have I done? Why am I doing this? Over the past 7 years, I have been a manager of platforms, people, and knowledge. Prior to that, #management has always been part of the job, but not the entire job. When I became a manager I was told to "make a choice... you can't do both." Now that I have been doing it, I understand why they said it. Being an effective manager means you aren't building it, fixing it, or maintaining it. You help your people gain the knowledge, resources, and communications necessary to succeed. But what kind of impact has that had on me personally? Yeah... there is the rub. I don't like it. As an architect, developer, or engineer, you build things. You have a solid result. I would have built a new website and I could show someone I built that. I created a new software, I can show it. I built a new network operations center and could show how it was effective in preventing issues before they happened. As a manager or director, your people