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Whoa! Look out Peter Lynch! Looks like you've got some competition!
Can I get that printed on a framed picture of a lighthouse or something?
Maybe a picture of a famous leader inspiring his people to action?
-----Original Message-----
From: Gilger.John [mailto:JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 4:05 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: rjacobse -at- microsoft -dot- com
Subject: RE: Senior Technical Writer
Bruce Byfield responded to Andrew:
\Andrew Plato wrote:
\>
\> It may be a cliche, but I like to think that there are two kinds of
people
\> with authority: managers and leaders.
\
\Or, to put it another way: there are people are concerned with their
own
\importance, and people concerned with getting the job done.
\
\I'd like to think that the managers muddle their way into dead-end
jobs,
\the way that Andrew says, but there's a lot more of them than there are
\of leaders - and to summarize a well-known saying, "infinite monkeys,
\infinite keyboards."
\--
\Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com
To put it more precisely -- Managers administer programs and things.
Leaders inspire people to action.
John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
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A landmark hotel, one of America's most beautiful cities, and
three and a half days of immersion in the state of the art:
IPCC 01, Oct. 24-27 in Santa Fe. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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