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> Wow, I hope no one from Boeing is reading this
> thread. It's a knife-twister.
Maybe, but it's a very valid point.
> But Eric raises an interesting question. Must
> workers both (a) do their work
> and (b) make a business case for their value?
Yes.
> At most companies, higher-ups
> look after cost/benefit analyses. As a result, the
> workers need to brace
> themselves for the day the manager [mis]represents
> the workers' value to
> those who set the budgets.
And why are they misrepresented? Because they are
uninformed. How do they become informed? By the
workers and the work they perform.
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(because life is too short to be inept)
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