Caring LO18553

d.l.dwiggins@computer.org
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:45:06 -0700

Replying to LO18391 --

Rol Fessenden writes:
> Let me say something that is probably highly unprofessional. You can't
> really be a good manager and give sound, high quality feedback to someone
> you don't care a lot about. Caring about others -- deeply caring about
> them -- is a necessary prerequisite to being a really good manager.

Your assertion is probably as highly professional as possible. In another
mailing list, there was a brief discussion of Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". One message gave a quote from the book
that I'd missed in reading the book: "Care and Quality are the internal
and external aspects of the same thing." Since having it pointed out to
me, I keep finding ways in which it applies.

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