[ale] Cost of freedom

[Raylynn Knight]

Of course they never have a plan as to where that 10% decrease in cost will occur or what is going to provide the additional 5% revenue.

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On May 17, 2011, at 9:05 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> “increase the revenues in the forecast by 5% and decrease the costs by 10%”.   They were always later surprised when they didn’t hit their numbers.
>  
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 8:02 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Cost of freedom
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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > On 5/16/11 11:30 AM, David Hillman wrote:
> >> Why did we go with the Netgear box in the first place? Someone with
> >> control over the purse strings thought it would be easier and faster.
> > Someone was dead wrong and had a misconceived idea of what's really
> > important.
> 
> Time and again, I see financial people making decisions regarding
> technology.  It is so wrong.
> 
> Would you have your plumber do your taxes?
> 
> When I did plumbing, yes :-)
> 
> Financial people make decisions based on a single viewpoint just as the tech people do. Both views are valid but the combination is the correct action. It's the collaboration that is always missing. Competition within the organization is not a process I've seen to be long-term productive. A prior employment location had very little understanding of "we all work on the same team" and so planning meetings were always mired in backstabbing and power grabs and just plain old fights.
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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> the pretense of taking care of them."
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