Comment by degenerate
8 years ago
I wish this is how all managers thought. Most love to stay on their level, and know nothing of what is actually going on a step below them. They take pride in pushing information up or down the chain without an inkling of how anything actually runs/works.
I forgot to mention how I learned to do this: apparently when Walter Chrysler Jr. joined Chrysler, his father did not put him straight away in an executive position like the other car company founders did. Instead, his first job was to clean out the basement of the Chrysler building. From there, he had to work his way up. It is said Chrysler Jr. became a proper manager as a result. I heard this story while I was a teenager and never forgot it...
I'm sure the promotion committee had a tough time making that call...