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Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company?
Futurepower(R) asks: "Before he was hired, Steve Jobs of Apple told John
Sculley he was a sugar-water salesman, and perhaps should have listened to his own words.
Under
Chairman and CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr, IBM did well, but was that only
because the world needs a global computer service company? Was IBM technically
advanced during his tenure? In your experience, can managers with little technical knowledge successfully
run a technically-oriented company?" What qualities would such a manager need to keep a tech company healthy?
In other words, not Bill Gates
Way to go, kid. You really stood up for Lunix.
In other words, not Bill Gates
Yeah, he's a real fuckup, isn't he? A textbook example of how not to run a company. Whenever I'm presented with a decision, I think 'what would Bill do?', and then I do the exact opposite. A lifetime of such decisions has enabled me to avoid the oppresive wealth and power that Bill must struggle with every day.
A moron is you.
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Get real. Managing people is one thing, the lovely and altruistic idea of such as self-sacrifice belongs with the lemmings in the churches, not an office. I have bills to pay and a family to support. It's one thing to give a donation to a charity, but these resources are *just* employees. You need to keep that in perspective. Tools of your trade can and should be replaced as necessary.
Having anything approaching a "friend-based" relationship with them makes running a business far more difficult than it needs to be.
let alone an entire tech company.
Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company? In two words: hate 'em. Make that HATE 'EM