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The difference between medicine and engineering is that largely the AMA has endured that management is a support function and medical doctors largely remain in power in most practices. In engineering, particularly software and electronics we’ve allowed parasitic management to take over under the cover that “engineers aren’t people persons”. Look at how many of the awards in our fields go to management rather than the actual engineers that created the inventions that have revolutionized the world.


True. Amount of sheer disdain in IT management is infuriating.


That's why it's important to cultivate managers from engineers, but that's really difficult.

As an engineer that became a manager, and then went back to being an engineer, I know the process well.

I was a very good manager, and I'm a very good engineer, but I love engineering, and hate management.

However, there was no one else that I could trust to do the job, so I took up the mantle.




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