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mapgrep on Aug 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work

When one (of many) underlings falls far short on one (of many) company edicts and you don't know about it, that's not "completely failing" as a manager.

slurgfest on Aug 19, 2012 | [–]

What is a manager doing without awareness of what is happening as it pertains to company priorities? Seriously, what is such a manager even doing?

pbiggar on Aug 18, 2012 | [–]

To clarify, the person failing far short was Tim (the manager) not Steve (the manager's manager).

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