Thinking about this more the idea isn't that managers aren't useful but that *everyone* should be eventually be a potentially good manager since there's high overlap between life skills and management skills.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1302165543537971206 …
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"All problems are interpersonal relationship problems" and management is relationship management. So for a team of 10 people, who all can be equally good managers assuming same level of maturity, what is the deciding factor to lift one of them upwards to establish a hierarchy?
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Usually the choice will be somewhat natural and obvious as the vacuum of leadership has to be filled with *something* and completely equal maturity is impossible.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/14/the-gervais-principle-iv-wonderful-human-beings/#more-2071:~:text=The%20laws%20imply%20that%20in%20a,is%20to%20identify%20number%204%20unambiguously …
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But maturity levels rarely stay the same over time and there can be large divergence between who is officially the manager and who is *actually* managing all the relationships.
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So the manager title then implies "I *was* the alpha" which implies "Thus I *currently* very likely still am given the previous supremacy."
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What makes hierarchies tricky is that they're difficult to invert. Someone who was previously at the head of one is not very likely to assume a lesser role reporting to a previous subordinate since it is anti hero's journey.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1309716654696300544?s=20 …
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