[It goes without saying that I'm neither an expert at people, nor an MBA. But let me _try_ to unpack TFA like _I_ am 10 or 15. Please bear with me.]
In general there's a sort of arms race between Technical Direction Setters (TDS) and Apparently Omniscient expert Consultants (AOC)
But this is _not_ the race that TFA seems to be concerned about
The tech exhaust is a KPI of, for, and by, middle managers whose job is to shepherd AOC-- whom, btw, could well be made of carbon, not silicon.
These middle managers most likely do not "inspire people (AOCs)", even if they have the capability or potential to. If they did they wouldnt _need_ these KPIs.
Are they TDS? They could be, but it's _not_ their job. The responsible ones, though, realise that they need to hit those KPIs in order to be good TDS
(absent of native ability to not overly indulge in "inspiring AOCs", which is rare in any org, and rarer in large ones)
Does this help? Did I manage to capture some essence of the logic?
[Sorry, mods, you might have to manually merge my comment using your writing skills :,]
Previously posted 4 days ago with 16 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368389
[It goes without saying that I'm neither an expert at people, nor an MBA. But let me _try_ to unpack TFA like _I_ am 10 or 15. Please bear with me.]
In general there's a sort of arms race between Technical Direction Setters (TDS) and Apparently Omniscient expert Consultants (AOC)
But this is _not_ the race that TFA seems to be concerned about
The tech exhaust is a KPI of, for, and by, middle managers whose job is to shepherd AOC-- whom, btw, could well be made of carbon, not silicon.
These middle managers most likely do not "inspire people (AOCs)", even if they have the capability or potential to. If they did they wouldnt _need_ these KPIs.
Are they TDS? They could be, but it's _not_ their job. The responsible ones, though, realise that they need to hit those KPIs in order to be good TDS (absent of native ability to not overly indulge in "inspiring AOCs", which is rare in any org, and rarer in large ones)
Does this help? Did I manage to capture some essence of the logic?
[Sorry, mods, you might have to manually merge my comment using your writing skills :,]