Re: Handling the anti-team situation?

[Scott Turner <sturner -at- airmail -dot- net>]

I must disagree with Geoff's conclusions. I have learned that when a 
manager demands personnel, they are empire building. It is not so 
much as about teams as it is about control.

This manager may very well say, once the writer is part of his group, 
that what and how that writer performs is his business alone.

What, is wrong with the forming of task forces? The building of a 
product team, or project team does not rely solely on who reports to 
whom, but on how the departments support each other.

This is failure of mission, not of assignment.

This new manager will probably be a loose cannon, and go off on his 
own with documentation.

What happens if he needs additional writers? No, this person is 
empire building.

And, yes, there is one thing to stop you from including this writer 
informally as part of your team, the new manager. Want to go head to 
head with this one? I think that the blood will flow.

The first way that writers disappear, is buy segmenting, and 
submerging them into other groups. Where, quite likely, the managers 
will NOT value them. Regardless of what one manager does.


Scott


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