Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/30/2012)
SQLPhil (7/30/2012)
Those that survive, or perhaps thrive, get promoted.
An interesting observation there Steve. Unfortunately I've seen too many examples where bad managers are promoted to get them out of the position they're in. Those that are good at their jobs are held there and not given the opportunity to move on to bigger and better things. Of course, this is usually because of the bad boss at the helm, a culture that has developed over time, or the fact that it is too much hassle to sack someone.
Why is that? I've been trying to tackle this issue, but haven't come up with a good way. Why can't we let people go for being bad managers? Or bad workers? It's odd, to me.
While Djackson certainly has a different viewpoint on the matter, in lot of cases I saw it came down to some form of loyalty. People getting promoted into positions they cannot handle. Anything from good techs turned into poor team leads, to folks making to large of ajump and into areas they juts can't deal with. These USED to be folks that were useful, or provided value in the past: trying to pull them out might make them quit, and some of the folks who actually care feel stuck with this poorp mgr on their hands - so you find a way to isolate them. Easiest way is often to give them a loftier title and fewer folks to deal with.
Not the best move for the organization, but less painful than the "other conversation".
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?