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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (342420)	7/7/2007 2:58:13 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572713

"One has to wonder 'the nature' of the brain that doesn't see the logic and usefulness of this approach; and if not the brain, then their motivation." Not really. The answer is pretty obvious. To manage by consensus building means that being a manager isn't as much fun. Instead of being the alpha male who gets to pick on everyone below you, you are reduced to being a facilitator, making sure that the ones actually doing the work get the resources they need. And that is a lot of work and it doesn't make you be a stallion with your wife. And, to make it worse, you have to share credit when things go well, and shoulder most of the blame when things go off the rails. And they are psychologically incapable of doing that. The fact that it doesn't really work, especially for complex organizations, isn't really important. As long as they can dodge the blame, nothing else matters. Which, by the way, is why GM has been dwindling away over the past few decades.