Typing vs Tapping
“I’m trying to ascertain where you stand in your managerial abstraction ability.”
Huh? Who talks like that?
The above is from a job interview I had several years ago. The interviewer was trying to assess my management skills. When I asked him to elaborate, he explained that a professional (in his view) went through 3 stages (and 2 evolutions) in their career:
individual
manager
managing managers
There was some truth in there, but it felt like an over-simplification. In my mind, management was a spectrum, and you could dial the knob in either direction depending on the context. But I didn’t have a better framework for explaining my point of view, so I just said I was level 3 and left it at that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Until now.
we were talking about the spectrum of typers to tappers…typers are hardcore workers, hands-on-keyboard people…they generally have less leverage, but then my buddy, he was with the CEO of a firm and he said that his biggest insight from spending a bit of time with him was that he wa…
