in reply to Convincing your boss to let you go to Perl conferences

It's not about convincing your boss that you going to Perl conferences is good for you and him...

Why not? If you can't give specifics of why it's useful for you to go, why should the boss send drop $2-5K on sending you?

There's nothing wrong with explaining the business value of such things.

xoxo,
Andy

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Re^2: Convincing your boss to let you go to Perl conferences
by cog (Parson) on Nov 21, 2005 at 22:36 UTC
    True, but sometimes it doesn't really matter how hard you try to explain. Some bosses (and employees too, unfortunately) seem to be so concentrated in production and results that they can't seem to see the other factors that influence those very things, such as the training and motivation workers get.

    I don't mean it's pointless to try to convince your boss, I just mean that it's *much* easier if you have a boss who doesn't need to be convinced.

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      I think you want to phrase this the other way around: if you have an overly bottom-line-conscious boss, no amount of explanation will convince him of the value of sending you to conferences.

      That it’s easiest to convince the boss if the boss is already convinced is, well, a truism…

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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        Er, yes... that's exactly what I was trying to say... :-)
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