RE: Senior Technical Writer

["Roy Jacobsen" <rjacobse -at- microsoft -dot- com>]

From: Bruce Byfield [mailto:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
>Sean: I think you're confusing actual authority with titular authority.

<snip>
>Wielding actual authority requires the cooperation and good will - or
at 
>least the acquiescence - of subordinates. In other words, the people
you 
>manage have to trust you. They don't have to like you, but they do have

>to know that they can depend on you to do your work and to be
consistent 
>in your treatment of them.

I have the following quote on a sticky note stuck to my desk: 

"The true measure of leadership is influence -- nothing more, nothing
less." -- John Maxwell

In the long run, what kind of influence do sycophants have?

Roy M. Jacobsen
Senior Editor, Documentation
Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions
One Lonetree Road
Fargo, ND 58104-3911
USA
rjacobse -at- microsoft -dot- com


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