As I get older, I increasingly think aboutwhether I’m spending my time the right wayto advance my career and my life.This is also a question that your companyasks about you every performance cycle:is this engineering manager spending theirtime effectively to advance the company or their organization?

Confusingly, in my experience, answering these nominally similar questionshas surprisingly little in common.This piece spends some time exploring both questions in the particularlyodd momen...