In article .net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Do good controllers make good managers? I know that good engineers often
don't make good engineering managers.


But do poor engineers make good engineering managers?

In my experience, every good manager had been a good controller and I've
never known a poor controller to make a good manager. But that's a small
sample.

One thing I've noticed about technical management is that the evaluation
of whether somebody is a good manager is very subjective. If you ask
the people being managed, "is your boss a good manager", you might get a
very different answer than if you ask the people several layers up in
the food chain.

I recently read the book "Good To Great" (ostensibly a book about how to
invest in the stock market) and came upon an interesting statement in
there. The author claims that any organization can overcome the
occasional bad manager, but is doomed to failure when it gets two
adjacent layers of bad managers.