| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2005.1 | | ANTPOL::PRUSS | Dr. Velocity | Wed Jul 22 1992 02:58 | 1 |
| Power is only powerful if you have the stomach to use it..
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| 2005.2 | "anatomy" of power? | USCTR1::JHERNBERG | | Wed Jul 22 1992 09:57 | 6 |
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-1. I would think that the exercise of power has more to do with
muscle than stomach, especially since the DEC stomach is now
empty. And of course, keeping the "third" eye constantly open.
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| 2005.3 | your power may be exercised by another | SGOUTL::BELDIN_R | D-Day: 251 days and counting | Wed Jul 22 1992 10:15 | 10 |
| Common sense will tell you that a person who sees that the only way to
solve his problem is to use methods which violate his principles, will
let someone else (with fewer scruples) do the job. I used to say that
I needed a "gorilla" to walk behind me as I toured the plant, just to
handle the ugly stuff. I've gotten a little tougher, but I don't need
him any more because I don't have the responsibility.
fwiw,
Dick
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| 2005.4 | Choice, not ability | DYPSS1::COGHILL | Steve Coghill, Luke 14:28 | Wed Jul 22 1992 12:35 | 19 |
| Re: Note 2005.0 by ICS::DONNELLAN
� If the powerful do not have the power to change things, and if the
� powerless persist in believing that they do not have power to effect
� change, then is there any hope?
1) Semantics: you are not powerful if you do not have the power.
2) Choice: You can be powerful and choose not to use this power.
I believe #2 is the case with Ken. If subordinates do not do what
you want (or tell) them to do, then you have two choices; let it ride
(do nothing), or fire them. And you keep firing people until you
find one who is willing to do what he/she/it is told to do.
One problem is that many times we are not talking about individuals,
but whole organizations, or the good-ol-boy network.
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| 2005.5 | | RANGER::PANDYA | | Wed Jul 22 1992 12:45 | 16 |
| -< Patience did not prove to be a virtue? >-
Let me mention two quotes I have heard in relation to Ken's approach
in trying to solve DEC's problems:
1. If you focus on negatives, negatives get stronger and vice a versa.
2. If you only have a small flashlight and have to climb a mountain at
night but can only see a few feet beoynd you, that is the only way
to start out (step at a time) until you reach the top.
It seems Ken tried to approach things using these two principles but
the board's patience may have run out due to the monetary pressures
from the investors. Afterall, our dollar notes say "In God We Trust".
-Atul
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| 2005.6 | | A1VAX::DISMUKE | Say you saw it in NOTES... | Thu Jul 23 1992 10:10 | 8 |
| as I read the basenote, I thought "there's the powerful and the
powerless and in between we have all those who THINK they are the
powerful, but should be thinking they are powerless".
-sandy
(or something like that)
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