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We can go back further than that. Hal Geneen was the CEO famous for expanding ITT into a multi-national conglomerate using rigorous metrics-driven management. H
by raganwald 15y ago
We can go back further than that. Hal Geneen was the CEO famous for expanding ITT into a multi-national conglomerate using rigorous metrics-driven management. His favourite saying was,
“Managers must manage.” As in, your job as a manager is to overcome the obstacles, not to use them for excuses. What do you manage if not the impediments to success?
- yzhengyu 15y agoAmen. I have lost count of the number of times where I saw engineering teams taking the full blame for failure where it was middle management dropping the ball with regards to dismissing the massive engineering risks engineering have found with third-party components, vendors, etc. When morale and motivation is in the pits, don't expect miracles or heroics to save the day.
- sausagefeet 15y agoSo true. It reminds me of working on a project and there are so many times when some piece of the stack that we didn't write is acting up. You want, so bad, to say "well, we can't do this because X has a bug in it". But then you remind yourself that your users don't care why your product doesn't work, just that it does. And you spend some frustrating amount of time finding a work around.
- emp_ 15y agoYou just described my last few years working with SharePoint :)
- InclinedPlane 15y agoIndeed, if success was guaranteed, why manage?