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Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:42:42 -0800
--- gary.buhrmaster () gmail com wrote: There is a theory of management that says a good manager needs to know nothing about the staff or the jobs he is managing, --------------------------------------------- <neck hair == raised> :-)
From empirical data, this is not a good thing for companies. They
constantly make bad choices because they not only don't understand the concepts, but can't even grasp the consequences of their decision. For example, I had four GigEs each to several upstreams. I pointed the BGP session to the loopback at the provider's router, so the traffic would load share across the four GigEs. I was told my one of those managers who "needs to know nothing about the staff or the jobs he is managing" that was not redundant and that I had to do one BGP session per GigE, so four BGP sessions to each upstream. After some heated discussions with the manager about why that was not a good design decision, I warmed up my resume and started looking for a new job. scott
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- RE: common time-management mistake: rack & stack, (continued)
- RE: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Tony Patti (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Owen DeLong (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Carsten Bormann (Feb 22)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Brandon Butterworth (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Don Gould (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Jared Mauch (Feb 17)
- RE: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Brandt, Ralph (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Justin M. Streiner (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Ray Soucy (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Randy Bush (Feb 17)
- Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack Scott Weeks (Feb 17)