Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean abandoning your desk
Tags: design, startup, productivity, marketing
Published: 2020-08-15 14:18:32

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title: Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean abandoning your desk
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date: 2020-08-15 13:05:50 UTC
tags: design,startup,productivity,marketing
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### Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean abandoning your desk

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As companies continue to increase their investment in design, and digital teams continue to grow, the company leadership feels the need of assigning managers who can keep those different design teams up and running.

Senior individual contributors (ICs) are expected to become leaders.

Leaders are expected to become managers.

But designing and managing are two very different jobs.

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