Teamworking skills
Ghengis
Most engineers I know are leaders. Thats what the job is about. The staff TRUST you to lead with responsibility to keep them safe and in work.
Don't let this "teamwork" stuff lead you astray.
The teamwork theory leads companies into trouble. The only company in aviation in the EUR that has the true partnership principal is Lufthansa.
Whilst I accept that the idea is good, and many, if not all MBAs, will say YES we agree...yet few of them know exactly what this means and worse, they have zero personal skills to bring the change about.
If we take Rolls Royce for instance. The board have all attended INSEAD business school yet the company is split into separate cost cells. The same with EADS. The same with Quintiq.
It is rhetoric Genghis. Snake oil talk. Pure rhetoric here in the EUR.
Futhermore there has to be demarkation where your particular responsibility ends and the other engineers' job starts. That is what the MBA people do not understand...the only negotiation that can occur is scheduling and fits..how the job mates up insitu.
When they start setting one team agin the other on the SAME job it can cause chaos..and you know what... a lot of them enjoy really that. They will be gone by the time the job has finished. Thats why they get short scrift by engineers...real world stuff is not cosy little seminar exercises in the class room.
Last edited by DERG; 1st March 2011 at 11:51.