Re: Re: Sticking point

So said  Dale Emery <[email protected]>  on  12/14/2002 --------------------

>Hi Andrey,
>
>> > > So "working harder" is measured by hours?
>>
>> > It's certainly one important factor.  What others do you see?  If
>> > two people were working the same hours, what would lead you to
>> > claim that one is working harder than the other?
>>
>> The results.
>
>I can see that, but suspect I'm seeing it exactly backwards of how
>you're seeing it.
>
>If I played 10 games of one-on-one basketball with Michael Jordon, I'm
>pretty sure he'd win 10 games, and he'd work much less hard than I. 
>Similar if I played 10 games of chess with Gary Kasparov.
>
>In those cases, the person who worked less hard would produce better
>results.

The person who worked less hard *now* would win. The person who would have worked hardest at the current task up to this point will have definitely win. Kasparov lives chess.

So given this excellent example, as a manager, who would you rather have:

* The guy who knows the current technology well and is motivated in the short term to work because he has a temporary (one- or two-year) cashflow problem, or
* The guy who does not care about the money, but loves the work and has been tinkering as a programmer since the VIC-20 (or the PDP-11, or the abacus, whatever)

My answer is: you need both. The former is an example of a guy who can get short-term results; the latter an example of a guy on whom you can depend throughout his entire life on the project.

(I'm not sure how compelling this is, but there's something good in there. I can feel it.)

J. B. Rainsberger,
President, Diaspar Software Services
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