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Article #621527Re: Old word processors
From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:20
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:20
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On Friday, March 30, 2018 at 9:45:15 AM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote: > > Some CEO's believe conflict in an organization is healthy and > > spurs people onward. Watson Jr said in his memoirs that he > > liked to purposely shake things up in the company. Personally, > > I think a company functions better as a united team and conflicting > > are best worked out at a low level when possible. > That's best if you're going in the right direction, but a herd of lemmings > marching in lockstep off a cliff is never a good thing. Good point. IMHO, good management is like parenting--you have to find the optimum balance between too much and too little control. You want people to grow and thrive, but, as you said, they do have to be going in the right direction. At Los Alamos during WW II, Gen. Groves was fanatic about everyone, even high scientists, doing only their assigned work and nothing else. Part of this was for security, but he felt that any digression from assigned tasks was an unnecessary waste of time. Groves was not popular, and even during wartime, I don't think I'd use his style of management. (Despite all his security, there were some critical leaks, and some badly needed good ideas came from outside the project thanks to luck, such as the Navy's steam diffusion effort.)
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