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To: Kirk © who wrote (4574)	4/24/2002 4:55:38 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4722

Kirk, BTW, Carly's answers on the stand remind me of many of the problems I had as a technical leader with marketing type management when they were running R&D. I'd say "it can't be done and document why." They would not like the answer, make promises they couldn't deliver and then we'd get beat up on performance reviews for delivering what we said we could deliver not what they promised. One thing I didn't like was it was better for some to climb the ladder to go along and then transfer often before they were held accountable. I think that happens everywhere but that didn't mean I had to like it. Incompetence happens everywhere. From the marketing side, I had an engineering project manager (not at HP, but I have HP stories as well) who swore to me for 6 months that we were "2 to 5 days" away from having our software finished (somedays we were 2 days away, other days we were 4 days away, etc.). I looked pretty stupid when the I made promises based on his "promises". Actually, my best HP story is that on the HP150 the lab section manager kept telling me that they couldn't make the internal cards user-installable. The engineering folks wanted them to be factory-installed only. If you wanted to upgrade your memory, you had to send the whole PC back to an HP site. I ended up drawing the solution on the back of the proverbial napkin, and then watched the section manager take credit for the idea when we presented it to executive management. Live and learn. Dave