RE: Re: Do C-Level managers, and business drivers really need to know about XP?

Oh I understand. I think the reason I was able to recognize it was that I went through it as well when I first became a manager.  Many of us started as the "star-techie" who were made managers.  I would just hope that one could overcome it by the time they reached VP level.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Emery <[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [xpAdoption] Re: Do C-Level managers, and business drivers
> really need to know about XP?
> 
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> > He sees these folks being moved in a direction that he feels
> > invalidates his own "primacy".
> 
> I can understand that.  That was a real challenge for me when I first
> became a manager.  Before then, I'd been heavily praised, appreciated,
> and rewarded for my technical performance.  In fact, that's why my
> manager made me a manager (not a good reason for making me a manager,
> but that's what happened).
> 
> So I strongly believed in my "primacy."  Further, and probably worse,
> I strongly *identified* with my "primacy."  Having that perspective, I
> managed in a way that I no longer see as effective.
> 
> "Primacy," real or imagined, was very hard for me to give up.
> 
> Dale
> 
> 
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