Swanson - 3:49 am on May 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

Do you really have to take it so literally.

What I am saying is that out of potentially hundreds of people (whatever their qualifications, or their bosses qualifications) a communication culture is the issue.

If it is a communication culture (wow, do PHDs or MBAs follow the same rules as human nature) then at some point there was a break down between R & D, Implementation and/or management.

I was talking about a company - being smart does not pre-qualify the environment, culture and infrastructure to build a large organisation.

Otherwise anyone could have a great idea, employ a bunch of smart people and form a company. Companies don't fail because of lack of intelligence or qualifications - they fail because of the lack of internal procedures, communication and management - something that a PHD is waste of time unless it is any of those disciplines.

Oh, I forget:

Dr Reid.

And thats me - oh by the way, I am a crap multi-tasker and I never like talking to my boss about what I am doing because I like living in my own world. Oh no, what happens if I don't update my boss straight away that we are running out of space - I know keep it a secret until I work out a way of getting round it. Done it, told my boss, he went with it, I gave it a go - users reporting problems. Who cares, I successfully compressed x megabits into x kilobits and used x algo to deviate the data from memory to the web farm..... Sound crap - welcome to my mates, the programmers, they don't care but they are PHDs too.

Oh, and by the way the gloves are off and I am a real Dr - maybe I got lucky becoming a manager away from the dark side of "the farce".

Just a little note if you weren't serious - sorry about that small chip on shoulder!