“Every promotion is a trap that trades your actual skills for meetings about meetings about strategy.”
Agree
- Management means abandoning craft that defined you
- Peter Principle is real and painful truth
- Best engineers make worst executives universally
- Success punishes you with incompetence and busywork
Disagree
- Leadership is its own valuable and learnable skill
- Refusing growth means stagnation and irrelevance
- Someone has to make decisions strategically
- Money and influence require moving up inevitably
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