I second you in every word. So, by my own previous personal experience, having a PC weenie manager is not necessarily a no go.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@pl.ibm.com <lrosa...@br.ibm.com>* LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen Phone: +48 (71) 792 809 198 2017-08-21 15:08 GMT+02:00 Tom Marchant < 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>: > On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:15:05 +0000, scott Ford wrote: > > >What about having PC managers who don't understand z/OS or z/OS ppl? > > One of the best managers I ever had was a PC weenie who knew > nothing about mainframes. He knew how to manage. He never tried > to make technical decisions because he knew that his people were > qualified to do that. He believed that the most important thing for > him to do was to keep the corporate bureaucracy out of our way > so that we could do our jobs. He enabled us to do our best work. > > One of the worst managers was a highly competent technical person > who seemed to think that he needed to second guess everything > that we did. He didn't have the temperament to be a manager and > should have remained in a technical position, but he accepted the > change because idiotic bureaucracy couldn't give him a raise without > making him a manager. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
