Re: FWD: What to do about a recommendation?

[Joe Malin <jmalin -at- jmalin -dot- com>]

When I started in the computer business, most companies did not have
separate career tracks for ICs and managers. To get more influence,
money, and so forth, you had to become a manager. This is a really poor
way to develop management talent, especially in a business whose
"manufacturing plant" is highly-trained people who got into the business
to *do* stuff rather than *manage* stuff.

I have also seen the results: many, many ex-managers who continue on in
the same organization as ICs.

That's why most big companies now have dual tracks.

Joe

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> Perhaps, but unless they're prepared to be *less* cowardly than their
> individual contributors they have no business taking management
> positions.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On 10/24/2006 5:32 PM Joe Malin wrote:
> I agree, though I would say that managers aren't any more cowardly than
> the rest of us.
>
>
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