Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company?

Posted by Cliff on Monday February 28, 2005 @06:10AM from the oil-and-water? dept.

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?

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Re:The manager must know enough to know who knows. by Fulcrum+of+Evil · 2005-02-28 07:57 · Score: 0, Troll

And that, in turn, means that people who write for the business press are completely incompetent, too.

You're new here, aren't you?

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