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RE: Is this a typical technical writing environment?
Subject:RE: Is this a typical technical writing environment? From:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> To:"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:27:36 -0500
>Is this a natural consequence of adhering
>to a hierarchical structure? I suspect it
>is something like that, but every now and
>then I hear about a nominally hierarchical
>corporation that seems to function pretty
>well, so there must be something subtler
>at work. Maybe it's a consequence of cultural
>factors rather than structural factors.
Management is a "team sport" and also the results of management is
cumulative. You might have a company with a team of 10 executive
managers. However, even if only one of two of them are butt-heads, they
are going to cause the whole team to be less than they could be. The
higher up on the pyramid that one or two are, the more effective will be
that damage because it trickles down.
