Gee Whiz,
IMO opinion, this reads very much like a Jeff Foxworthy
list of:
You must be all wet and I am the expert if...
or better yet:
if you believe so-and-so you must be on the wrong
listserve list...
How about asking...
who is the list owner?
what was the exact description of the list?
K. KEMPER wrote:
>
> ,we visionaries use think tanks, not just fun and talk and see what evolves!
> More inventors and discovereres will share with you that without an idea
> for FOCUS, one can talk till doomsday and get nowhere except have MENSA
> ideologies shared!
> >
> >>I am the most assertive vissionary you'll ever meet; but a group of people
> >>with wonderful ideas is NOT what management training is about!>
>
> >Who says? Tell me what management is about if it is not ideas?
>
> FOCUS and objectives is what managmenet is all about! I have ideas
> about lunch and about sex and about beautiful colors but that won't
> get my company or the world closer to what it/they need!
>
> >Businesses rise and fall based on the ability and quality of ideas.
>
> I disagree; they fall and rise because no one is focused on the objectives
> of the firm!
>
> One of the shames of our educational process is that we usually don't
> >provide a mechanism for the development and expression of orginal
> >thinking.--original thinking focusing on the objectives is what makes
> a business profitable. Just fun ideas takes a business down the
> bankruptcy route ALWAYS!
> >
> >>I have a huge virtual company; perhaps the world's largest. I love to
> >>share ideologoy and visions with people world-wide. Just a few minutes
> >>ago, a joint venture partner called using HIS nickel. I told him where
> >>Entrepreneurs' University and ECI was going and how we hoped to get
> >>there and he though (I was unfocused!) I was interested in doing
> >>several things and I almost pissed him off! WE are seriously considering
> >>doing a joint venture --a multi-million dollar asset company with
> >>another multi-million dollar asset company--but he wanted to know
> >>WHERE did we start; with real estate acquisitions in what country,
> >>in bank acquistions of what size, where, etc.
> >
> >Your point is what?
> >
> >>THis list is for the sharing of all sorts of ideas yet they have to be
> >>directed with a focus and appliccation has to be used or we are
> >>in the WRONG discussion field--liberal arts is for the general
> >>growth of the mind--we are developing managment decision skills--
> >>or so I thought! K. Kemper
> >
> >Who is determining the "focus and application?" And I do not think I am
> >in the wrong field and BTW some of the most creative and innovative
> >managers have come from a liberal arts background. Once you are locked
> >into a a methodology the tendency is block out other ways of thinking.
> >One of the things lacking in the solving of business problems is a
> >cross-disciplinary approach--which would include liberal arts as part of
> >>management education. Maybe you are on the wrong discussion group?
How about this one?
why do you join any listserve list?
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Pat Gantt
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