Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men

Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by stcredzero on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:57PM (#12686809)

There's a common misconception, that technical excellence is a primary skill for managing a team of programmers. It's not the primary skill but a secondary one. The primary skill is managing people. One still needs to have technical competence -- far beyond just being able to code. However, the focus shouldn't be on dazzling displays of technical esoterica. The focus should be on balancing a tangle of conflicting cost/benefits and communication with the team -- logistics and tactics, not fisticuffs.

You can be a great manager with solidly average technical skills, so long as you can find a resource to advise you. (Dunning-Krueger trap: You may not know enough to understand if you truly understand the advice.) A team managed by such will usually outperform an average manager with great technical skills.

Alexander the Great would probably have conquered more of the world, if he had personally fought less.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by choicewords on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:58PM (#12686821)

Didn't Alexander die of poisoning, not combat wound?

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by Mz on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:03PM (#12688503)

Proposed causes of Alexander's death included alcoholic liver disease, fever, and strychnine poisoning, but little data support those versions.[15] According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine report of 1998, Alexander probably died of typhoid fever[16] (which, along with malaria, was common in ancient Babylon[17]). In the week before Alexander's death, historical accounts mention chills, sweats, exhaustion and high fever, typical symptoms of infectious diseases, including typhoid fever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alexander_the_Great

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by philk10 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:02PM (#12686873)

I think the poster was implying that if Alexander hadn't used wars for all his gains he might have made more

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by stcredzero on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:57PM (#12688467)

Also true, but I was saying that he probably could have performed even better through war, if he hadn't been as injured as he was at the end of his campaigns.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by stcredzero on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:56PM (#12688454)

His decreased health at the end of his life was largely due to wounds from fighting. He probably would have been able to carry on his campaign longer, and would have made better decisions at the end of it, if his health were better.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by flukus on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:44PM (#12689413)

> Alexander the Great would probably have conquered more of the world, if he had personally fought less.

I doubt it. It's much easier to inspire people when you are in the trenches (wrong era of warfare) with them. It's not a conincicidence that many of the greatest generals in history (napoleon, Hannibal, Alexander) were known for being in the thick of the action.

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