Re: Control Issues

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

If you report to a technical publications manager, the buck stops
there.  It is the TPM's responsibility to step up to the plate, hear
the views of all concerned on any issue they can't reach a 
consensus on and then make a decision, stop the confrontation
and accept the heat if there's any to be taken.  If your TPM can't
do that, or if you all report to some manager whose focus is
elsewhere and who expects you all to go off and settle it among
yourselves (which, from your post, it appears you all can't), then
IMO as a TPM, you're probably doomed.  Anarchy is not a process.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wanda Phillips" <wanda -at- writelivelihood -dot- com>

> Some of the tension is from a lower level of management, where the folks 
> stuck between me and the machinery are not up to the constant shifting, 
> they are 25 year veterans of one way of doing business. They aren't 
> managing any more. My immediate supervisor hates confrontation


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