Hear, hear. Structures that equate leadership and level of contribution with people management are outdated and increasingly ineffective.
Individual contributors are essential to high quality outcomes and career tracks should be purposefully built to develop and empower.
Why do we have to āmanage peopleā to be āsuccessfulā?!
Be an GREAT ENGINEER instead of a MEDIOCRE MANAGER
This career paradigm is broken
Iāve managed ppl. You couldāve awarded me ābest ppl mgr everā but I donāt WANT to manage people. Iām great and happy where I am as an IC