Disaster! Milk explosion

by Elizabeth on 15/01/2007

Unfortunately I’ve spilt a carton of milk into my kitchen drawer (please don’t ask how, I’m not sure I was awake enough to remember), which has hampered my ability to write interestingly this week.

So while I go and wash up every piece of cutlery I own, please take a look at the Upwardly Mobile Manager, a blog I stumbled across this weekend.  The latest entry on putting together a team is very true-to-life until you get to the ‘say no to HR if they offer you someone you don’t want to work with’.  Sorry to say I have never been able to refuse a resource and in many cases have bit the hand off the manager offering me someone as they have to be pretty bad before they are better than no one.  Still, we can dream we live in a perfect world.  Enjoy.

Share

No related posts.

Tagged as: yuuguu

  • http://upwardly-mobile.blogspot.com/ Quiller

    I am surprised that you have never been in a position to have a say over who you have in your team. I think it’s a fundamental principle of team-building: if you are the manager it’s YOUR team!

    Still, we can only work within the system we have, right?

  • http://www.elizabeth-harrin.co.uk Elizabeth

    Unfortunately, in my experience, project managers are never ‘the manager’. Matrix management (managing people who do not actually report to you) is a key skill of project management. However, as you are not the line manager of the resource, there’s a limit to how much influence you can have over whether you get that resource or not. Team-building, I agree, is important, but often I’ve found myself in situations building a team where I have not chosen the members.
    Or perhaps I’ve just been lucky and never felt the need to rebel against resource allocations!

Previous post:

Next post: