STATING THE OBVIOUS: WHO TO HIRE FOR MIDDLE MANAGEMENT I advocate project-based

STATING THE OBVIOUS: WHO TO HIRE FOR MIDDLE MANAGEMENT

I advocate project-based business organizations (dynamic teams), not department based organizations (bureaucracies). Project organizations produce a market for good behavior internally. Bureaucracies produce a market for bad behavior.

A departmental manager (a monitor) is always inferior to a project manager(who has concrete objectives in a finite time period.).

Unfortunately project organization requires constant learning and adaptation, and there are vast portions of the population who must learn by doing – and some very slowly.

Internal project managers with emphasis on customer service, hire women who have played sports in school.

External project managers with emphasis on customer service, hire women who have experience in sales, and who are attractive, and know how to employ it.

External project managers with emphasis on risk mitigation, hire men who have even just a little sports experience, and some sales experience.

Women without a feminist chip on their shoulders generally improve the work place.

Gay men without a chip on their shoulders, generally improve the work place as much or more so than women.

The more I work on propertarianism the more I see humans as a distribution of sense-perception systems that transmit information by voluntary exchanges. And the more useful I see various perceptions, as long as the customer satisfaction, profitability, and individual responsibility take precedence over personal interest.

Even from someone who was not serious about team sports (wrestling is pretty individualistic), it is obvious that if you do not play some sport or other, you are very likely an incomplete person.

The military is a man’s best team sport. Football is a decent substitute. You get hurt if people don’t hold up their end. Scoring goals in soccer is not a substitute for being tackled. And in business, and in life, we are all hurt when others don’t hold up their end.