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I'm pretty sure its illegal for non-lawyers to manage lawyers.
This is incorrect. The company I work for has a legal department that reports to upper management.
My mistake, I just heard someone mention it before.
Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
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Re: Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
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A lot the skills used for management such as negation skills just come with age anyway. Well you get older and fear change a bit more, and you tend to say "no" to more things, but that's not really a management skill.
I respectfully disagree. I believe that knowing when and how to say "no" is one of the most important management skills, and I suspect that understanding the need to say "no" a lot more than "yes" in the early days of a project (or a whole business) is quite strongly correlated with success.
I think he meant to type "negotiation" rather than "negation", which makes little sense even if he was trying to convey the point you just made. So I was making a little fun of that. I agree with you.
Re: Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I respectfully disagree. I believe that knowing when and how to say "no" is one of the most important management skills, and I suspect that understanding the need to say "no" a lot more than "yes" in the early days of a project (or a whole business) is quite strongly correlated with success.
I think he meant to type "negotiation" rather than "negation", which makes little sense even if he was trying to convey the point you just made. So I was making a little fun of that. I agree with you.
Sorry, I missed the original (presumed) typo. My sense of humour has now been rebooted. :-)