My opinions became trusted in decision making because I spoke up only when I had well-founded thoughts on things I understood. Now that I'm looked to for opinions on a wide breadth of topics, apparently "let's find (or train) someone qualified and ask them instead" is not a decision anyone wants.
Telling me to just be as useful as a generalist doesn't work when it was the specialization that made me worth listening to. It's a setup for failure. And I know the platonic ideal of management understands the team has different capacity on different topics and yadda yadda yadda, but I have a job in reality.
Telling me to just be as useful as a generalist doesn't work when it was the specialization that made me worth listening to. It's a setup for failure. And I know the platonic ideal of management understands the team has different capacity on different topics and yadda yadda yadda, but I have a job in reality.