RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality

Subject: RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:44:55 -0400

An employee's effectiveness can often be measured by the employee's own
work. A manager's effectiveness is at least partially measured by the
work of the employees s/he manages.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana Worley
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:24 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality
>
> On Tuesday, September 02, 2008, Dan Goldstein wrote:
>
> > Managers are the most effective employees?
>
> Dan, you say that as if you don't agree :)
>
> My observation would be that someone who is a manager and
> got there by "rising through the ranks" must have been an
> effective employee at least one time or another.
> Otherwise, that person would not have been promoted.
>
> Whether that holds true once the person is a manager can
> be debated. The Peter Principle wasn't formulated for
> nuthin' :)
>

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References:
RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality: From: Hemstreet, Deborah
RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality: From: Dan Goldstein
RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality: From: Dana Worley

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