By Steve Ranger
Published: Tuesday 15 November 2005
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Spin seems to be the over-riding principle for managers - appearance over substance then blame someone else when plans aren't feasible after they've been decided!
It seems to be fashionable to exclude anyone with technical skills or knowledge from management meetings, possibly because mere skills are perceived as resources to be managed and nothing more. It's a continuation of the 1980's Civil Service practice of keeping specialists in subsidiary positions while administrators hold the top posts and make the decisions.
From experience, the biggest issue is bosses who a...
Anonymous
Spin seems to be the over-riding principle for man...
Anonymous
I work in a large mobile phone company with extens...
Jim Dodd
Both arguments have merit. There is clearly a nee...
Chris Knowles
This topic has brought the usual naive emotional c...
Dr Garry E Hunt
... those that manage IT don't understand it, thos...
Anonymous
I have come 'through the ranks' first as a techie ...
Tony Sygrove
Who cares what Gartner says ?
Organisations lik...
martyn
Putting IT to one side for a moment business peopl...
Anonymous
The sea has already changed - Douglas Adams descri...
Rob Garner
!!Now there's something right from the horse's mou...
Parveen Kumar
As an IT consultant who has worked in many compani...
The Software Tailor
This is an interesting debate. Correspondents seem...
David Quinn
How simplistic. Not all IT staff are the same, an...
anne beaumont
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