A PERSONNEL OR DIVISION MANAGER
What a boon to the addicted drafters of personnel charts!
Now, there’s a dark side to this. I have a good friend at the Department of Housing and Urban Development named Al Ripskis.[[30]] “They’re reorganizing again,” he groans from time to time. It’s a waste of good tax money in Al’s opinion. The faces and desks change; the bungling remains.
Shelton, though, says the better companies thrive on fluidity, and in Silicon Valley he may be right. It depends on your outfit’s style of management. Don’t play computer games with your people, however, just because the machines make it easier to play musical chairs.