Academics will be academics. Most of them have never delivered anything beyond a word-smithed grant application. None of them has spent the night at work debugging code, coaxing an optics package into spec, or even filling out an RFQ response. They spent what, 12 full days! polling 149 managers on semi-hypothetical…

OK, so there’s a new paper with a prof’s name and that of a few doctoral candidates on it. I’m not impressed. Sure, even a late-starting boss does not like to see empty cubicles when he’s in, but imo the vast majority of managers who manage quantifiable work judge their people by end results. That said, if your coming…