My opinions about how companies should be managed

• The ideal (project) manager doesn't tell you in detail what to do. As a specialist you know best yourself. When your manager knows better, he/she should be the specialist, and the company should hire another nitwit to do the red tape......
• The ideal manager doesn't tell you in detail what to do, but asks you why you did the things the way you did. You (as a specialist) must always be able to defend yourself, why you did the things the way you did. The proper asking of these questions shows the quality of the manager, next to the ability arange the proper environment to motivate the people he/she is responsible for. (so he/she better not be a nitwit...)

• There should be an officer high up in the organisation tree taking care that no money is spilled by stupid purchasing actions etc. In small companies often this is the founder of the company. In larger companies financial management often feels itself too good for this, figuring out fancy bookkeeping constructions.....

It's spring 2002 now. The text above has been type during spring 2001. As you can read in my resume, a lot has changed in the company I work for (it's improved!). Some additions to this text will be done soon......