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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers
Message-ID: <6180@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 89 14:29:24 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <20471@hpftc.UUCP> mco@hpftc.UUCP (Mark C. Otto) writes:
>Managers that are not literate in an area such as computers, yet are forced
>to make decisions about their purchase, application, viability, etc., are
>almost doomed from the start.  

A *good* manager, when faced with having to make a decision in an area in
which he/she is not experienced, will seek the advice of one or more experts
and base decisions on that advice. Blind decision making is simply a *bad*
management practice. And it's companies with bad management that are doomed
from the start.

>Companies that are smart should provide training
>before supplying capitol expenditure dollars.

Yep, another good management decision!


Tom Almy
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