I Got Your Back: We’re a Team
For a variety of good reasons, many workers in the IT field have a low opinion of their managers (see Chapter 1, Making Inevitable Conflict Productive and Chapter 3, Creating Constructive Loyalty for details). When you are working for someone whose technical abilities you don’t respect, and something technical goes wrong with the project, it’s tempting to blame the manager. “If they’d only followed my advice,” you might say, “we wouldn’t have had these problems.”
By contrast, if the project goes well, it’s also tempting to keep all the praise for yourself. After all, you’re the person who actually did the work. Maybe your manager listened to you, but they should be doing that anyway because you’re the technical ...
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