Those of you who have read this blog for any time realize that I’m not to understanding of management. This is no doubt due to spending years working on projects that benefit a company only to see them derailed for personal gain by middle managers.
Although the projects we’re worthy and in some cases very significant in returning some of the competitiveness back to the company, some managers were always willing to put personal position over business need.
This was essentially true in companies like DEC. The old Digital Equipment in the end was so top heavy that they needed a meeting to decide what day of the week it was. And to make matters worse, everyone including the janitor had to sign off before the memo could go out stating today was Wednesday.
Ok, it’s exaggerated….but not much.
Do you see yourself or your company in this scenario? If so, realize that sooner or later you too will go the way of DEC.