RE: 40-hour weeks

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote: 
 
> And annoyingy common as well.  It's an unfortunate fact of 
> life that bad managers tend to outnumber good ones.

Management, like science fiction, movies, TV, snack foods, gadgets,
software manuals, and a host of other things, tends to follow Sturgeon's
Law*. Excellence in almost any endeavor is rare. 

The exceptions are things like high-altitude mountaineering, precision
aerobatics, etc., where the mediocre and inadequate tend not to survive.


The "termination with extreme prejudice" of sub-par managers hasn't
caught on in most places. ;-)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law 

Richard 


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