Excelling post. It is the CTO’s job ti protect his team from getting pulled to nonsense tasks
I have had in my previous company technical developers that werr asked to be team leaders. When you let a talented developer burn his precious time on calls and babysitting instead of writing code then the team and company productivity is hurt. So I took the heat as a cto to burn my time on nonsense calls and sales and marketing meetings. This approach is better because the previous one will result in your best people quitting on you.
Talented developers are getting amazing offers every day and if they are not happy they will quit so the lesson here is:
- when you hire someone for a role just let him work at the role you hired him for and he will be the happiest employee on earth. It’s as simple as that