People should be made people leads because they are good people leads, not because they are good ICs.
>People should be made people leads because they are good people leads, not because they are good ICs.
Good people leads don't lead people whose jobs they can't do. That's the point: if your boss can't do what you do, he's not leading - he's letting you lead, while following along on an elevated, speciously constructed platform.
Don't fall for it - always demand competence from your own leadership.
That just doesn't work. I don't need to know how you achieved something to know I want it done. Unless you expect every people lead to have all the skills of all their reports, so each level becomes exponentially more impossible to achieve.