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  • 1.  Let's not act like children!

    Posted 10-08-1997 21:55
    To everyone who reads this,

    I made a comment earlier in response to Gately's analogy of failure in
    selection to a football team. My opinion, valid or not, should not become a
    platform to start calling each other names and denigrating the methods,
    products, or philosophies of other people.

    The purpose of EDUCATION is to teach, not slam. If I am being called
    stupid, it is my responsibility to defend myself. If I want help, I'll ask
    for it.

    ON THE OTHER HAND, why is it so shameful to promote one's own wares? In
    spite of what we may think, we participate in this list for knowledge
    gathering, networking and support. If Gately is, in fact, selling
    something, I haven't seen it. I read one post, which provided an amusing
    depiction of a common failure of the system to put the right people in the
    right place. There was no mention of "buying" or "selling"

    The dialog referred to is a perfect example, imho, of just the sort of
    conflict that we, as students of management development (I refer to ALL OF
    US), need to overcome, and to be open to the ideas presented here and
    elsewhere.

    If we do not do this, we are simply re-living the closed-minded past that
    we always talk about as the bad 'ol days...

    OK, enough of that...

    Thanks for all the input...this has been quite a thought inspiring list.

    Michael.

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    | Michael Weisman |
    | Graduate Student |
    | University of South Florida |
    | mweisman@packet.net |
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    CHAOS IS MERELY A FUNCTION OF
    THE GRANULARITY OF THE SAMPLE


  • 2.  Let's not act like children!

    Posted 10-09-1997 05:47
    Hear hear

    Michael Weisman wrote:
    >
    > To everyone who reads this,
    >
    > I made a comment earlier in response to Gately's analogy of failure in
    > selection to a football team. My opinion, valid or not, should not become a
    > platform to start calling each other names and denigrating the methods,
    > products, or philosophies of other people.
    >
    > The purpose of EDUCATION is to teach, not slam. If I am being called
    > stupid, it is my responsibility to defend myself. If I want help, I'll ask
    > for it.
    >
    > ON THE OTHER HAND, why is it so shameful to promote one's own wares? In
    > spite of what we may think, we participate in this list for knowledge
    > gathering, networking and support. If Gately is, in fact, selling
    > something, I haven't seen it. I read one post, which provided an amusing
    > depiction of a common failure of the system to put the right people in the
    > right place. There was no mention of "buying" or "selling"
    >
    > The dialog referred to is a perfect example, imho, of just the sort of
    > conflict that we, as students of management development (I refer to ALL OF
    > US), need to overcome, and to be open to the ideas presented here and
    > elsewhere.
    >
    > If we do not do this, we are simply re-living the closed-minded past that
    > we always talk about as the bad 'ol days...
    >
    > OK, enough of that...
    >
    > Thanks for all the input...this has been quite a thought inspiring list.
    >
    > Michael.
    >
    > +================================+
    > | Michael Weisman |
    > | Graduate Student |
    > | University of South Florida |
    > | mweisman@packet.net |
    > +================================+
    > CHAOS IS MERELY A FUNCTION OF
    > THE GRANULARITY OF THE SAMPLE