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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by _0ffh on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:47AM (#27500584)
One of the drawbacks of managers who are not good engineers themselves is that they lack the ability and knowledge to distinguish between truly excellent talent and pretenders. That's an organisational deficiency.
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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by alex-mohr on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:47AM (#27501461)
For a decent take on that organizational deficiency, Rickover wrote a 1.5 page memo in 1953 addressing similar issues for the nuclear US Navy. At some point, it's a failing of process and structure rather than people. [1]

1: http://ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/Rickover.pdf

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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by appleflaxen on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @09:58AM (#27528550)
That's a great memo. Thank you for sharing it.
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