Carrol Cox wrote: Most of them (unfortunately for us) are pretty damn competent, thoughit's because of their connections that they get to exercise that competence.
If this is the case, I have not seen it in thirty years in ANY place I have worked. What I have seen is that the grunts do the work and succeed in keeping things going, usually in spite of the gross incompetence and bottomless self-satisfaction of upper (and sometimes middle) management.
Joanna
