I blame the manager at the company. Whoever was in charge of that development group, and every personnel manager above him. Everyone thinks because it's not a s

I blame the manager at the company. Whoever was in charge of that development group, and every personnel manager above him. Everyone thinks because it's not a skill you can test for, that anyone can manage. It's not true. It should be viewed as a profession (emphasis on being a professional in the segment) no different from any other. Teaching is often treated the same way. Requiring intensive study, and expertise in many aspects including psychology. Simply because anyone can stand in front of a classroom, everyone thinks they can be educators. There's authors of programming books where someone who knows nothing about the profession of education, is trying to educate and it shows. The manager should have had the awareness (and care), to sit down the author and explain to him you can't go 0 to 100 in a new organization on day one. You have to build credibility, slowly. Over time you'll make a bigger impact, after you've gained the respect of your peers. Instead, they just allowed this to continue and grow. Coming in as a new guy to a pond trying to make the biggest splash is going to gain you resentment, in most places at least. That's just a psychological reality, whether it makes logical sense to the author or not. I think he understands all of this now. I don't blame him, or his coworkers that he addressed. I think he still has a lesson to learn, that the manager of these folks failed miserably, as most do. That's who should be fired along with their superiors. Management is almost always at fault, and very rarely gets the blame they've afforded themselves.