Look at Boeing, they were run by Engineers and built a great plane, replace them with Bean Counters and you get the disastrous 737max...
"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." ~ Putt's Law
I was basically fired by HP one time after working there for about 2 years.....
The manager of the team I was working on or I thought I was working on got it all started, one day I get an email from a woman who told me all the things I was not doing as part of her team...I did not understand, so I asked who I thought was my Manager, who said, yeah I forgot to tell you she’s your manager....
After several more major disagreements with this woman who came from HR to manage a team of IT Engineers....
The final straw was I was working on a big project that I had just wrapped up, she called me and said I was failing at my job, my major screw up was not completing an online ethics training course...I told her I have until Friday to do that, she said that was true for everyone except her team which committed to completing the training a week early...
I asked her, what was more important, completing the project for the customer or the ethics training...she said the ethics training. Immediately I told her, she was not qualified to manage Engineers and needed to go back to HR..
I knew my days were numbered but at that point I did not care...
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