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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNick" data-source="post: 205050" data-attributes="member: 10293"><p>In my corner of the Corp IS world, I don't see any layoffs going on. However, there has been an increase in retirements and people leaving the company. I am not sure if any of those people were "encouraged" to leave ot not.</p><p> </p><p>If there is a move to eliminate poor performers, like some people have suggested, I HOPE management will apply those standards uniformly and fairly, and I HOPE the decision is based upon REAL criteria and not some BS thing like "he left 5 minutes early one day last month" or whatever. </p><p> </p><p>One challenge management will face is that it is hard to suddenly hold people accountable if they've been allowed to slide for awhile. As any parent knows, it makes no sense for you to let your child get away with something 1000 times without disciplining them, and then out of the blue you ground them when they do it the 1001st time. That is bad parenting, plain and simple.</p><p> </p><p>Also I just wanted to put my 2 cents in on this debate about whether you need to be technical to be a good IS manager. I have seen non-technical people be excellent managers of technical project. Usually, they have one or two technical people that report to them that they rely on heavily. Of course, that is one of the principles of good leadership: surround yourself with good people and value their opinions.</p><p> </p><p>The bad non-technical managers usually don't surround themselves with good technical people and/or they don't listen to their technical opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNick, post: 205050, member: 10293"] In my corner of the Corp IS world, I don't see any layoffs going on. However, there has been an increase in retirements and people leaving the company. I am not sure if any of those people were "encouraged" to leave ot not. If there is a move to eliminate poor performers, like some people have suggested, I HOPE management will apply those standards uniformly and fairly, and I HOPE the decision is based upon REAL criteria and not some BS thing like "he left 5 minutes early one day last month" or whatever. One challenge management will face is that it is hard to suddenly hold people accountable if they've been allowed to slide for awhile. As any parent knows, it makes no sense for you to let your child get away with something 1000 times without disciplining them, and then out of the blue you ground them when they do it the 1001st time. That is bad parenting, plain and simple. Also I just wanted to put my 2 cents in on this debate about whether you need to be technical to be a good IS manager. I have seen non-technical people be excellent managers of technical project. Usually, they have one or two technical people that report to them that they rely on heavily. Of course, that is one of the principles of good leadership: surround yourself with good people and value their opinions. The bad non-technical managers usually don't surround themselves with good technical people and/or they don't listen to their technical opinion. [/QUOTE]
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