[102479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interpersonal skills needed for Network Engineers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. Irving)
Sat Feb 16 18:41:34 2008
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:36:17 -0500
From: "R. Irving" <rirving@antient.org>
To: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
CC: Kim Onnel <karim.adel@gmail.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <47B771B6.9000305@antient.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Proof read, and corrected.
* sigh *
time to call it a day. :-\
R. Irving wrote:
>
> Kim Onnel wrote:
> <snip>
>>>
>>> In my humble experience, i have came across people that i just feel
>>> they are
>>> not right for such technical jobs, people would act and take their
>>> golden
>>> fingers to the devices without logic and others who has more of a
>>> structured
>>> approach to solving problems and thinking, some that will crank under
>>> pressure and just loose it and others who will act rationally.
> The Executive Summary:
>
> You know those techs that are easy to understand,
> and communicate so effectively,
> almost always seeing things your way ?
>
> Those are the sycophants, Jungian type "E's".
>
> You know those techs that always seem to
> be talking over your head, and telling you things
> don't work the way you think, always screaming caution ?
>
> Those are your *real* techs, Jungian type "I".
>
> Why can't most managers figure this out ?
>
> See: Alpha Male Syndrome, by our friends at Monster.com
> (Kate Ludeman, PhD, and Eddie Erlandson, MD)
>
> http://www.alphamalesyndrome.com/
>
> :-P
>
> </noise><signal>
