A recent post on James McGovern's blog prompted me to write this entry. Read the entry here. If I were asked the same question, my answer would be YES.
It is a very conspicuous thing to notice among the folks (includes my friends as well) to grab the title of Manager as earlier as possible. I do not mean to undermine the role of a manager, I worked with some excellent managers and I respect the position.
One for the reasons for the rush to be a manager is to hide the technical incompetence. 95%(perhaps even more) of the poeple in IT industry should not have entered the software field, and the shortest way they found out to save their jobs is to become a manager, rather damager.
Another reason is folks are too lazy to learn new things and apply them to their work. The mindset is "I'm asked to do this and have done it". Arrive Late, leave early, take big break in between (play badminton, 2 hr lunch break, ...) have become quite common. Most of them dont even know what a BLOG is and the last they read something from a book is only during their college days. Innovation is given a damn.
Let me stop here!
Disclaimer: This entry is by no means to undermine the managers nor to demean the Indian IT folks. Any resemblence is purely coincidental and not intentional.
4 comments:
Ravi, I think thats true of not just India. It is like that everywhere. It is more so in India though but its not (fundamentally) a problem with Indians. Its about right policies by the government in the area of RND. Recently there has been some progress on that front by the CSIR on University profs. being able to set up industries.
@Haraprasad,
You have brought in the policies by government on RND which is different dimernsion altogether. My point is not about India and Indians. I have seen world class engineers from India. This entry is neither about India nor Indians, but about the degrading quality of IT folks.
May be there is need for good managers....consider an example like Dhoni...I am never afraid of any technical challenges...The desire is because of their dream and will...Hope, I will be an example in the near future... Stay Positive...Stay cool...with this I can achieve it
@Komma,
There is indeed need for "good" managers and I'm not saying that we dont need managers. The point is many technically incompetent folks are behind the managerial positions.
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