Sorry I'm late to this party... Hoot! ROFLMAO!
Presciently on topic to this forum, and appropriate to this post, here is a Dilbert from 2007... http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2007-01-25/ On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Carl Turney <[email protected]> wrote: > I apologise for appearing so hostile. I've actually held back on the > intensity of my frustration and pain. But I came to NZ 4.7 years ago > expecting =none= of the negatives of the place, and had a much better > time of it when migrating to AU from the USA, 27 years ago. > > No one I've met, with a degree in commerce, with experience as the > general manager of an SME, plus with years of professional-level > experience inside and outside of New Zealand, disagreed with any of my > statements. On the other hand, every single lifelong-Kiwi manager has. > > If I told NON-Kiwi managers that I had qualifications and managerial > successes in economies that were outperforming theirs, that I knew what > they were doing wrong, and that I'd like to help them: At least 1 in 5 > or 1 in 10 would take a keen interest and try to learn from me. It only > happened once in NZ. That in itself highlights a big part of the problem. I'll admit, the services you offered on boms.co.nz are way way way out of my field of expertise. When you approached me a year or two back my thoughts were, Ouch! this is way out of my pay scale, punt him upstairs fast, but leave him to swim for himself because I think he will go down like a lead balloon. (On the other hand he may soar, I can't predict which). Now a year or two later I'm trying to guess what made me feel that way and make the following observations. Certainly our managers do occasionally get their heads spun 'round by the odd passing Buzz Word and bunch of Consultants... Somehow BOMS doesn't look like the sort of thing that would grab 'em. More likely it would irritate them. But hey, I'd be the first to admit I really don't have a clue as to what makes them tick or do what they do. * I expect a general attitude of "if this guy has such good advice on Management, why isn't he a top flight manager of a top flight firm whom I'm meeting at a conference smoozing session, instead of being (self===un)employed going around offering advice on being a manager." * Your services offered range from being a stand-in GM all the way to a tech pub writer and a lot in between. Which middle manager would touch you with a barge pole? My guess is only a GM or nobody. But hey, don't feel bad, after all, what do I know... I'm merely a lowly Techy Alien Wage Slave humbly and cautiously plying my alien / linuxy / Programming skills to earn my daily loaf. -- John Carter _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
