RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality

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I would say that is a generalization that is not necessarily true. 
They could be good at politics and brown-nosing. I've seen more than 
one person move ahead by saying what the upper management wanted to 
hear.

Scott


At 8:47 AM -0500 9/4/08, Downing, David wrote:
>From: "Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>
>Subject: RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality
>To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>
>On Tuesday, September 02, 2008, Dan Goldstein wrote:
>
>>  Managers are the most effective employees?
>
>Dan, you say that as if you don't agree :)
>
>My observation would be that someone who is a manager and got there by
>"rising through the ranks" must have been an effective employee at least
>
>one time or another. Otherwise, that person would not have been
>promoted.
>
>Whether that holds true once the person is a manager can be debated. The
>
>Peter Principle wasn't formulated for nuthin' :)
>
>Dana W.
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