Reply to post: Re: Technical management tips

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

Terry 6 Silver badge

Re: Technical management tips

Although I guess it explains how they got bought up by a rival so easily.

People become what you expect them to be, or hire them to be.

If you grind any initiative out of your teams and make them risk averse, by micromanaging, for example, then no one can complain if they are lacking initiative and risk averse so that they need to be micromanaged. No one, except that is, the poor bugger who comes in from elsewhere to try and get results out of them.

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