At 16:51 06-06-2002 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote: >And, no matter what you do, don't "promote your best systems programmer to >"management"
When you want to hire someone as a manager, do not believe everything he says about his skills but try to find people who worked for him and ask their opinion about the person in question. Over the years I have repeatedly encountered managers who portrayed themselves as "people managers", managers who listen to what the people in his department have to say and care about them. Once they started working however, it turned out that they had their very own definition of "people skills" and ran the department in a way that makes the US Marine Corps look like an bunch of anarchists. (The problem in this country is that managers are hired based on their diplomas and their management experience, not on their people skills -- with sometimes disastrous results). >(The day you install a time clock or implement security key cards with >chips that tell you where every employee is every minute of the day you >might as well kiss your truly creative people goodbye.) Not just the truly creative people. Installing such systems suggests that the employer does not trust his employees to make the hours they are supposed to make. I have not met many people who would like to work in such a situation. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
