Comment by sokoloff
2 years ago
That’s what’s difficult about leadership: success and observable, effusive credit flows down the org chart through the manager to the team. Failure is intercepted and sticks more with the leader.
Neither is 100%, but if you try to push failure 100% onto the team, you’re going to have a really bad time personally and be rightly reviled as a weak leader by your team, your peers, and your senior leaders.
> effusive credit flows down the org chart through the manager to the team
not in my experience tbh.
i worked 16 years as an Engineer across 6 orgs including Fang. What I saw is that the closer you are to management the more valued and rewarded you are.
Simply because you are doing the management's dirty work (your influence is direct) and you have more insight into finances, so it's more difficult for them to underpay you.
Credit very rarely flows down and when it does, in very generalistic way "thanks to X and Y and also the team for their efforts".