Care with the reply function, please.
"They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights,
and no one spoke a word to him,
for they saw that his suffering was very great."
Job 2:13
The conversation on forced distribution is great. At least I'm interested.
The promiscuous use of the reply function is not.
---> yes, I say PROMISCUOUS! <---
How many times is one expected to read the same post in ever-repeating
cycles where what we've seen comes around again and >again and >>again
and >>>again yet >again while a new post adds a word or two of comments.
And this does not account for the repeats, threepeats and fourpeats unmarked
by added arrows because a new branch of the recurring cycle starts from the
first post we read way back when.
When I was but a child, I was taught that one can summarize a conversation,
addressing main topics and points to make a reply. When I went to school,
I learned to do this in writing. In college, we were taught that we had to do
this eloquently and well to succeed. In business, even more so, emphasis
SUCCINCT.
In the brave new world of cyberspace, many of us have forgotten these
basic rules of rhetoric and commnication. Thus it is that we look through a
glass darkly, our vision obscured by the haze and fuzz of multiple renditions
of quick notes read before.
This is my vision of the inferno, or at least the circle reserved for list
sinners.
My vision of paradise?
Say what you will, say it once, say it well.
"O that my words were written down!
O that they were inscribed in a book!
O that with an iron pen and with lead
they were engraved on a rock forever!"
-- Job 19:23-24
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Knowledge Management
Norwegian School of Management
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