Job titles should reflect different levels of responsibility

# Job titles should reflect different levels of responsibility * Interns work on projects that are not in the critical path of the organization. In most organizations, the expectation is that they will actually be a net drain on resources but that they create a pool of potential employees who already understand the organization’s systems and are bought into their culture. * Example: An intern should be responsible for doing a project to look into potential workshop ideas. * Leads execute a tactical plan with the support of a group of people and some supervision but aren’t expected to come up with the tactical plan. Managers should have at least some experience doing a thing (this goes for all positions above manager too). [[People who have done a thing should be in charge of a thing]]. * Example: A lead should be able to run a workshop with guidelines about how to run a workshop and checking in weekly on what they’re going to get done. * Directors come up with a tactical plans and execute on them with little or no supervision. They are ultimately responsible for making sure a thing gets done. They are not expected to come up with the goals that the tactical plans are driving towards. * Example: A director should be able to make an entire workshop happen, but not realize that it’s a critical thing for the organization (or conversely, that it is a waste of resources). * VPs own strategic plans in particular areas of responsibility. They look at what the entire organization needs in the context of their area, break that down into goals and make sure that those goals happen. * Example: A VP should realize that a workshop needs to happen and make it happen. * C-level executives make long-term decisions about the direction of the entire organization. They are where the buck stops. While they divide up responsibilities, to some extent, all the C-level executives are responsible for everything in the organization. If the organization fails, it falls on all the C-levels. * Example: a C-level should lay out the entire strategy for workshops across the company — when they are worthwhile and when they are not and absorb all responsibility for when they don’t go well, even if they were someone else’s idea. Obviously there’s some nebulosity between tactical and strategic plans, but my rough heuristic is that tactics are what you spend your time doing and strategy is why you’re spending your time that way/the goals. (Drawing heavily on [[kelloggCareerDevelopmentWhat2015]]  [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Job+titles+should+reflect+different+levels+of+responsibility) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Job+titles+should+reflect+different+levels+of+responsibility)