The IT Manager’s Dilemma
By Rajesh Setty on Mon 26 Sep 2005, 5:23 PM - 2 Comments
I am now a columnist for an online magazine called CIOUpdate.com. My columns over there will appear on the last Monday of every month. The first article is titled “The IT Manager’s Dilemma”
Being a manager is hard work. Many managers feel that it’s a thankless job. Sometimes managers are also put under the category of “overheads” 
This article focuses on some of the people issues that come up while managing IT professionals and a few insights on how to manage in these challenging times. To be more specific, one of the manager’s job is to answer questions of his/her team members. The question is what questions should a manager answer – the ones that are asked ONLY or should he or she take the time to answer those “un-asked” questions?
Over to The IT Manager’s Dilemma.
Comments welcome.
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Anonymous on September 26th, 2005
A good article.Well, i don’t know if it fits into the context of your column but i think you missed the gist and that is ‘Team formation’ stuff.One must read Eric Sink’s new article ( http://www.ericsink.com/articles/Choir.html ) and other two articles ( As these would address ‘How to form a great team’ , obviously because a-very-smart IT-Manager can’t give you great results with average team members)
http://www.ericsink.com/No_Programmers.html
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
These are mandatory-readings for every IT Manager because he definitely has some solid arguments about making a top-notch team. Though he talks at micro-ISV level , however, im sure this would work in corporate culture as well.