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Subject: Re: Matrix Management
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Martin Marietta claimed to use matrix management a few years ago
when I worked there.  Essentially, for the most part the project
management dominated everything.  The "home-shop" managers were
a quite anemic and powerless and spent most of their time listening
(but not being able to do anything about) job gripes and keeping
tracket of personnel records for their employees.  There really
was a third managment, a network of project leaders who really did
the work of deciding the professionals path from project to project.

I was always fond of the term "Mushroom Managemnt:

	"Keep 'em in the dark and feed them shit and watch 'em grow.

-Ron