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		zug_zug 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: From engineer to manager: A practical guide to you... What are you even talking about? "Roles" never do anything. People do things. Just because somebody's job-description says something doesn't guarantee that persons contributes anything -- e.g. the CEO of yahoo who refused to buy google for 1 billion dollars.

unethical_ban 25 days ago [–]

And some people who are really great at managing software are terrible at managing people and conflict. So we hire people into "roles" or specialties.

I would not be a good doctor, for example.

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