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Pretty much every company I've been in or know of values a vertical trajectory instead of a horizontal one for its employees i.e becoming a manager nearly always means a faster salary progression than becoming an expert in one or multiple fields.

Why is expertise valued less?

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 69 points 13 hours ago (12 children)

At the end of the day, a single person can only do so much work. All the experience in the world doesn't change that there is only 24hrs in a day.

A good leader can enable a team of people to work together achieving more than the sum of their individual contributions.

Leaders are force multiplier, and good ones should be compensated as such.

Sadly, we also over compensate the shitty leaders far too often as well :/

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

There's 24h in a day for leaders too. A leader cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good, just like an expert cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good.

Expertise is also a force multiplier.

A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work. Thus ending up with more expert work done.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work.

This part is definitely true but I think it misses the point. A single expert can be a force multiplier, or they can be overbearing dead weight. There is the possibility a technical expert wants to micromanage and see every step as it is done (thus holding up work that can be done while the expert is elsewhere).

I conjecture that those skills and attributes that separate the two experts we've described is what "good leadership" consists of.

I would never trust a leader who has no technical skills, but neither would I trust a leader who has only technical skills.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You can also have shit leaders that micromanage. What even is your point?

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 points 7 hours ago

Being a technical expert != being a good leader

There are a set of skills and attributes that enable one to leader well. An ideal leader will have both technical skills and leadership capability, but it is possible for each to exist independently in a person.

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