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From: "Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>
Subject: RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
On Tuesday, September 02, 2008, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Managers are the most effective employees?
Dan, you say that as if you don't agree :)
My observation would be that someone who is a manager and got there by
"rising through the ranks" must have been an effective employee at least
one time or another. Otherwise, that person would not have been
promoted.
Whether that holds true once the person is a manager can be debated. The
Peter Principle wasn't formulated for nuthin' :)
Dana W.
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Furthermore, what you say about managers rising up through the ranks is
how it SHOULD be, but that's not always how it works. Sometimes people
get brought into an organization at the managerial level. That means
they understand the principles of management, but not necessarily how
the specific organization works.
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