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Re:Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students by ta1234567890 on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:40AM (#24279172)
Project management is definitely very important. As a group/team manager where do you put the "deep thinkers, not doers" though? What is their place in business or society?

I personally identify with being a thinker instead of a doer and for most of my professional life struggled trying to find a position from where to contribute without feeling inadequate for not doing/executing.

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Re:Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students by HenryBemis on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @04:36AM (#24280423)
I don't feel you "push them" to a specific slot. Thinking is good but something needs to come out. A book, a paper, a.. something. A number of people thinking for a common subject need to produce something, not think for 3 months and then start thinking of something else.

The PM skills is to get them to produce efficiently and effectively. Not perpetuate the "sitting and thinking".

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