> Telling your manager to go read a book on managing seems like a terrible idea. I don't know in what mindset this is acceptable. If I sent you a reference to

> Telling your manager to go read a book on managing seems like a terrible idea. I don't know in what mindset this is acceptable. If I sent you a reference to appropriate data structures for trees and graphs would you get mad? Or would it be context dependent? One thing to smart off about it and another thing to suggest a source of information. Peopleware is a fantastic resource for managing and most people probabably wouldnt take offense to a suggestion to check it out. But if the author was rude about it or their relationship had already deteriorated to the point the manager was defensive about any feedback then it was a lost cause anyway. But to think someone would / should be offended by the suggestion to review a valid source of good information... no that is not healthy.