Are managers evil?
by Joe Little, 23 January 2012 | The Agile Blogosphere
This post is from Agile & Business by Joe Little. Click here to see the original post in full.
First, many have said that there are a lot of bad managers in the US, and in the world.
Peter Drucker worked on this.
W. Edwards Deming had his ideas, and worked on this.
And many many business gurus have had their say, trying to improve the managers.
On the other hand, there is in the agile community a bunch of people who feel that managers are evil.
OK, maybe that is an exaggeration, most of them do not think all managers are evil. But in general, they feel that most managers are evil.
We think that virtually all managers are not evil.
Equally, it is less than useless to think of the workers as bad or lazy. Or evil.
But let us stay with the managers today.
Yes, there are many managers who do not manage well. And some may even manage in a negative or bad way. But I think the main reason is that they have been badly taught. No one has taught them or they were wrongly taught. Or they have wrongly learned. For example, that it is useful to be a command-and-control manager. And we have tempted them with ego rewards, and many have succumbed.
There is, for some of them, and for some of "us", the notion that no one can correct a manager. At least no one...read more
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