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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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If managers are so good at managing things, how come they can't manage to manage themselves? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Or why is it that managers need managers to manage their management? 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

For a real answer:

A manager can control what is done under them, but if one of their teams/members needs something done by another team they have no control.

Their manager might control the manager of the other team though, so the decision goes up the line until it hits someone who has both sides of a problem under them and can make the decisions on priorities/cost etc of the requested action.

In small companies, this may just be one or two layers, but in bigger companies it becomes a disfunctional disaster.