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Why don't we discuss "manager engagement" or "manager experience?"
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Why don't we discuss "manager engagement" or "manager experience?"

Shouldn't we want those who make the trains run to feel good about their jobs?

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Ted Bauer
Jun 07, 2019
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Wouldn't that logically be more important? Managers drive the ship because executives, well, they need to fret about revenue and build relationships. Rank-and-files/peons? Even though you hired them, which is an assumption of trust in their ability to do things, of course they can't be trusted and that's how we got micromanagement to scale. But in the m…

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