On 2020-10-21, Michael J  Mahon  wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>
>> So what do I understand by 'team'?  In most of the places I've worked
>> since the late '70s, teams/groups/projects, call them what you will, had
>> a boss but his job was primarily to stop intra-group squabbles and, much
>> more rarely, to keep everybody heading for the same goal. In many of
>> these, the boss was not the designer, but in all of them ideas and
>> suggestions were encouraged by both boss and designer/design team and in
>> none of then was a suggestion slapped down though it might be refused
>> with reasons. That's what I understand by 'team work'.
>
> I agree with that assessment with one addition:  the team leader (more
> accurate than “boss”) also has the responsibility to provide “air
support”
> to keep higher level management from disrupting the team’s operation. ;-)

The term I've heard is "shit shield".

I was once lucky enough to work in a shop whose manager had a vocabulary
which included a seldom-used word: "No."  He would use it regularly in
response to silly user requests.

> I recall a Dilbert cartoon which stated that the IQ of a committee is
> determined by dividing the IQ of the lowest IQ member by the number of
> people on the committee. ;-)

"A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain."

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