keithe@teklabs.UUCP (08/18/83)
When a former office-mate moved out he left a copy of this (apparent) letter to the editor hanging on the wall. I don't know what magazine it came from... ---------- H e r e, i n t h e w o o d w o r k We (the Edisons) have not gone anywhere. We simply have been relegated to the corner, the woodwork, or the cubbyhole by the geniuses of middle and upper management. We are frustrated, bottled up, and hopping mad; victims of both the MBA syndrome and Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. -Archibald Putt Research/Development January 1976 Management is more interested in conformity than creati- vity - paperwork is more important than performance. The inventor tends to be a free spirit, a maverick, something of a nonconformist. It is the nature of the beast. It is a nature that mystifies and terrifies the MBA in the Brooks Bros. suit and the Gucci shoes (or the other gender in equivalent fashions). The corporate nooks and crannies are full of us Edisons, and most of us do not expect to climb to the top of the corporate ladder. We are competent, serious professionals who find great satisfaction in being able to make a creative contribution to the corporate health. We understand and appreciate the free enterprise system. We love our country. We want to do our share to help America reach its potential greatness - and we know that this cannot happen without mining the mother lode of our creativity. David P. Fowler, BSME Irving, TX ---------- keith ericson at teklabs