[Theforum] Re: voting

Brian King BKing at Impact-Technologies.com
Wed Jan 30 14:17:53 CST 2002


I whole heartedly apologize if I miffed you.  Gritting your teeth too hard
can really cause dental problems, I don't wish that on anyone.  I was merely
responding to Isaac's lure to the lurkers.
I don't have any problem with organization.  Heck, I have drilled
organization and effective documentation into my troops heads for years.  I
personally spent a fair amount of time working in an organization where it
would take weeks of preparation and long days to plow through the
organizational requirements to be able to actually perform a four hour task,
(US DOE/DOD).  It literally drove people to underachieve, to not
participate, to not get involved.  You inevitably end up with a product that
isn't all that it could be because of too much structure.  It's a balancing
act that is grows in complexity proportionate to the number of people
involved.  I eventually did what any sane and achievement driven person
would do, bagged ass.
I just didn't want to see a situation evolve where there are knee jerk
reactions like, 'that's a problem, let's make a new rule for people to
follow to resolve it."
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Erickson
>> (*maybe that disqualifies me?).

>Uh... I wouldn't think so...

>I think some of us think of structure and all this process nonsense as a
>way for evolt to continue in perpetuity if that's what it want to do.
>How do you continue forever if the community is reliant upon the sweat
>of the brow of only a few?

>I mean this as serious thoughts. I'm not trying to start a fight. It's
>the way I see of setting up a system that holds itself up. I know that
>*people* resist structure but do organizations?




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