RE: Teams Leaders what are they, and do we need them? - Extension from Re: Re: Do C-Level managers, and business

You would probably be disappointed, or at least surprised, how much a senior management team really does act as a team.

I have seen technically savvy managers get in the way, but I have seen just as many non-techie managers get in the way. The Dilbert where the PHB suggests a mauve database would have more RAM comes to mind...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Bossavit [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Teams Leaders what are they, and do we need them? -
> Extension from Re: [xpAdoption] Re: Do C-Level managers, and business
> 
> 
> > [>] We have a team of all managers, it's called senior management.
> 
> In what ways does this group of people behave as a team ?
> 
> > > and i've seen technical managers get in the way of the
> > > developers.
> >
> > Similarly, managers who "get in the way" hardly deserve the title.
> > 
> > [>] In what ways would a manager get in the way?
> 
> It was Pat who formulated this observation originally, so he may have 
> better answers than mine. But I've seen several ways. Most recently, 
> my former CEO mandated that a project under his "leadership" was to 
> start without using CVS "because it's only a very short one-person 
> project, and so no version control is needed".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -[Morendil]-
> Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest.
> 
> 
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