[BC] Dealing with the Brain Challenged

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:13 AM 4/4/2010, Dave Dunsmoor wrote: -------

> > ... Maybe it's because Management sees talent as a profit center
> > and engineering as a cost center.
>
>     I wonder if that isn't just another of the many "business legends". How
>many managers actually view maintenance of the plant that provides them with
>a living wage as a problem?

It's not a legend. Most managers come from sales. How many times have 
we read here about companies that won't allow even the most basic 
maintenance until the station is off the air and the commercial 
makegoods begin piling up? How many times is a Manager told that a 
piece of equipment has 6 months to live? 5 1/2 months later it begins 
wheezing and there's a two month estimated delivery time for a new unit.

>     I may be simple, but I believe that anyone that truly holds that opinion
>is too stupid to be doing the job they've (apparently) been hired to do, and
>soon won't be.

Why won't they survive their own stupidity? They seem to rise to the 
top, make big bucks and stay until retirement or until a better offer 
comes along. It's clear to me broadcasting doesn't hire people for 
their brilliance. They don't fire their people for lack of it.

In this age of consolidation and Wall Street control fewer and fewer 
people at the top have any broadcast experience.

Rich