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I think it's perfectly acceptable for managers who are managing many people to utilize the tools that are typically used for aggregating people's opinions in other contexts. They can ask them to fill out a survey, ask them to vote on an issue, or have representatives responsible for representing the opinion of subgroups that they manage.

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> or have representatives responsible for representing the opinion of subgroups that they manage.

Yes. And so the opinion becomes filtered. See above.

The right answer for any leader at Director or above is to simply schedule 1:1s with random people from all levels of those you manage directly or indirectly, at least once--if not more--per week.

It's a rather efficient bullshit detector when you have two or more layers down in the organic chart.

I guess I didn't mean to criticize managers who are continuously soliciting feedback through a middleman, just ones who aren't soliciting feedback at all.

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