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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (22214)	12/18/1998 12:12:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> Management is a science and an art in and of itself. Agreed. >>> You don't need to be an expert in nursing to manage nurses. Disagree. Typically they have their own hierarchy in a hospital, and their own training applies to their work. Often the top nurse is someone with a nursing PhD, but if not, normally there is in any case a head nurse for the institution and the floor. Failing that, normally a doctor is the nurses manager. >>> Barksdale new very little about programming yet he managed NSCP rather well. He did not manage any programmers. And the old days in Netscape programming management are nothing to be proud of, in general. Results depended more on individual efforts than top-down planning. Areas of great work accomplished via extraordinary effort in a sea of chaos. Netscape is a great example of how experienced, well trained programming and design professionals could have made a difference, especially for managing rapid change in software and programming goals. I believe they have been belatedly addressing that. Professionalism providing a design and methodologies lingua franca could have helped them earlier.