[Political Junkie Too]

True, but it trickles down to the team leader level, which is the entry point for middle management. For the person who is good at "managing up," this is the place to be.

I think that middle management is where late-in-career people want to be, as continually keeping fresh on technical skills can be wearying when one needs stay a top performer.

-PJ

[cgbg]

HQ was happy to take anyone who was willing to go there—employees, team leaders, managers whatever.

Most folks wanted nothing to do with it.

;-)

[cgbg]

The fascinating thing that happened with the HQ—work in the office, Field—remote work approach was that the field kept getting more and more talented folks and HQ slowly degraded.

These days quality of life is a big deal for most workers.

So—the HQ folks had the fancy titles and low quality of life, while the field folks had the talent and knowledge.

What happened was when difficult challenges were faced the Field folks created virtual teams to address them—and just let HQ know after the problem was solved.

We (field people) were very careful not to “rub HQ’s noses in it”—let them pretend they were the important people in the organization (and they did have the big salaries and titles).

It was truly a win win.