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You must me on the wrong listserve if....

  • 1.  You must me on the wrong listserve if....

    Posted 02-03-1997 17:28
    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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    Best Regards,

    Pat Gantt pagantt@worldnet.att.net Pat@HomeMail.com
    The University of Tennessee M.S. Human Resource Development
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