[ale] Cost of freedom

[Lightner, Jeff]

In fact once we were doing a 5 year projection after doing the annual
budget and I was asked to come up with a formula in the spreadsheet that
showed a trend in revenue increases and cost decreases for each of the
successive years to make the General Manager happy.  I pointed out that
such a formula was inherently invalid as its trend would be to
eventually show the business making nearly infinite revenue at nearly
zero cost.  Despite that they had me put the formula into the
spreadsheet.   (At least that "projection" wasn't anything folks were
expected to achieve unlike quarterly forecasts and annual budgets.)


 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Raylynn Knight
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:30 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Cost of freedom

 

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.

	 

	
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	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

	 

	 

	On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
<mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com> 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. 

		
		--
		Until later, Geoffrey
		
		"I predict future happiness for America if they can
prevent
		the government from wasting the labors of the people
under
		the pretense of taking care of them."
		- Thomas Jefferson

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