Rules to work by?

[drwex]

A while back there was a series of postings about peoples' rules or guidelines for life. I'm wondering if you have similarly pithy rules for the job you do.

Comments

[ahf.livejournal.com]

First one that comes to mind,

Don't ask someone to do something you would not do yourself.

[drwex]

This rule would put 80% of the managers I know out of a job. One might argue that this is not a bad thing, but really the skills of management and the skills of most jobs don't have a large overlap. One of the reason so many software managers suck is because they were good engineers who got promoted into jobs that had different skill sets.