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"Good engineering management" is a fad | Irrational Exuberance

#management | As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their organization? Confusingly, in my experience, answering these nominally similar questions has surprisingly little in common. This piece spends some time exploring both questions in the particularly odd moment we live in today, where managers are being told they’ve spent the last decade doing the wrong things, and need to engage with a new model of engineering management in order to be valued by the latest iteration of the industry.

This is an interesting read because it ties really closely to people that tightly identify with their job. For a while it's been easy to be "morally good" and really invest in the personal relationships on your team. But times are a-changing...

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