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Subject:Re: I Can Really Pick 'Em, Can't I? From:doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:46:03 -0800
On Thursday 16 February 2006 11:04, Ron Hearn wrote:
> What I find curious is that Cathy's company hasn't yet realized that
> they have a real problem with this manager and dealt with it, perhaps
> regarding him as an 'invisible' elephant in the room. This I suspect
> does not bode well for resolving the problem internally.
I think a top-down management organization is more succeptible to this
problem. "Young" companies with stronger horizontal management would spot an
ineffectual manager and make his/her improvement a condition of employment.
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