Right. And to be fair to the thrice-despised managers, I very often find, when I look into the details of obvious bad decisions, that they weren't so obvious at the time anyway. I have to be careful not to match my hindsight against their foresight and judge them incompetent.
Of course, sometimes a decision really is boneheaded. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing. -Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt 1956-70 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 13:27 We shouldn't speak badly of IBM managers but we need someone to blame for the bad business choices and it's not the people in the trenches. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
