Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
by zebrafish on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:53AM
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I suspect you will continue to be disappointed with that expectation. Management of resources, motivating employees, and political savvy are all very distinct skills from writing code.
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Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
by js8 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:08AM
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"motivating employees"
I don't think it's possible to motivate somebody in a discipline that you have never tried. If anything, it is hugely demotivational.
It reminds me of a dialogue I had once with a manager of technical writers. She said that she wanted to be a manager because she was bored as a technical writer, in order to motivate people. Really? She couldn't even motivate herself to stay!
So, feel free to claim that managers need different skills. But to motivate people, who can do something you don't know or don't like? Don't kid yourself, please.
Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
by Insanity on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:34AM
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He states that he isn't disappointed so far.
Same for me, all my managers so far have had engineering knowledge or held computer science degrees. It's not always been pure coding, but at least compsci.