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From: joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: more on estimation
Message-ID: <27911@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 90 20:59:39 GMT
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jtaylor@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>Surprising to find MBA managers being thought the least competent managers;
>one would expect those individuals who had realised that managers
>need to develop their skills, not just rely on what they were born with,
>to operate more effectively than non-MBA managers.

I think people are objecting to managers with only MBA experiance; the
person who was running a fruit packing plant, then went to MBA school,
and is now a V.P. of software development.

Joshua Levy  (joshua@atherton.com)