Peter:
>What I see happening now is that the people with no imagination, no
>spunk, no awareness outside their little world are given the job of
>creating intranets or internets or extranets
That fits with my experience lately. The one truly innovative web
team I've had contact with in the last year has been reorganized
four times since June. When I first talked with them, the attitudes
and individual competencies of the 8-member team had a range like
this:
Genius (2)..Special (3)..Competent (3)..PromisingNewbies (0)..
.. Experienced-but-Clueless (0)
Eager&sensible (6)..Realistic&sensible (2)..Toyhappy (0)..Lazy (0)
Today, after being slashed, intimidated, and forced to accept
transfers who had been cut from unrelated jobs elsewhere in the
company, the team looks like this:
Genius (0)..Special (0)..Competent (1)..PromisingNewbies (2)..
..Experienced-but-Clueless (2)
Eager&sensible(0)..Realistic&sensible (1)..Toyhappy (2)..Lazy (2)
I had intended to wait until the dust settled, then go back and
convince them to pick up the pieces of a project we had started.
Now, I'm not so sure. Not only are they abandoning UNIX in favor
of NT (none of the newbies has ever worked with UNIX even as a
user), they are all hyped about animated navigation icons coordi-
nated with theme songs for each department, and one of them has a
larcenously casual attitude toward copyrighted material on other
sites.
Ack! Ptui!
K@
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Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting Services
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