From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-12 01:53:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!area.cu.mi.it!newsfeeder.edisontel.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Management, was:Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:00:58 +0200 Message-ID: <0f23mv0dckqkot7lpb434nc48k6d3sgj2q@4ax.com> References: <9keolvs9tjbbbuv1ndnsr69af7mtddemhk@4ax.com> <3F5F1ADB.1070008@noplace.com> <3F5F84C4.70902@attbi.com> <3F606BFA.7020407@noplace.com> <3F607DC5.5070408@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063356800 23469390 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42405 Date: 2003-09-12T11:00:58+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 05:45:50 GMT, "Anders Wirzenius" wrote: >Another thing that is a hard lesson for some managers: >The higher up in the organization you are, the longer time span it is >between your decision and the result of the decision. >I see often impatient managers who bypasses lower level managers and >who go directly to sub-sub-sub-ordinates and give orders. The only >reason is that the sup-sup-superior doesn't have the patience to wait >for the organization to carry out his decision properly. This leads >easily to low motivation among lower level managers and complaining >about lack of time among higher level managers. :( "Vassal of my vassal is not my vassal!" (:-)) --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de