eManagr News

If you’ve been following along here, you already know this article is the long-promised what makes a good manager story.  It has been derailed several times, most prominently when Vineet Nayar spoke out on perceived deficiencies in American programmers a couple of weeks ago.

The article grew and I want to move towards smaller, more readable articles.  So, the big article is now a series.

Before I get started, though, I definitely need to tip my imaginary hat to the fortieth anniversary of the Moon Landing.  With few tools and less hard data than most of us take to the supermarket, plus more than a few wonderfully demented mishaps, a bunch of civilians and military men managed to organize themselves well enough to get human beings to the Moon and back, and invent a few great technologies along the way.  Just…wow.

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Here I was, all set to talk about what management really is (or should be, in my opinion), and the Microsoft’s Indian partner plops this in our collective laps:  Most American Graduates are Unemployable.  Go ahead and read it.  I’ll wait here.

Ready?  Basically, since:

• I’m an American programmer,
• The criticism doesn’t really apply exclusively to programmers,
• eManagr is about removing the burdens of process, and
• Everybody else is screaming about these comments,

I might as well gripe, too.  At least admit that it’s better than another Michael Jackson tribute. (more…)