Re: Meeting programming 9 or X?
Re: Meeting programming 9 or X?
- Subject: Re: Meeting programming 9 or X?
- From: Frank Petrie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 09:47:31 -0400
On Saturday, August 3, 2002, at 01:05 a, email@hidden
wrote:
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There is a lot of talk about helping our users migrate. That is well
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and good. But we don't need to force it or separate it from the overall
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meeting format. Our attitudes should be that were all okay with the
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past, present and future. If at any time we take the stance that "I'm
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okay, you're not okay" or "I'm not okay, you're okay", then we either
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set our selves up as leaders of despair under the first scenario or
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egotistical leaders who always know better than others, or believe that
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they do by rising above the rest by their views and putting the rest
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down. To be successful at a transition, we need to make goals that will
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help our user groups advance in small steps improving skills in using
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the newer OS. This will not be an overnight transformation and it would
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not be fair to our most basic users to try to set the goals within the
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groups at so high a level that they are out of visible reach for some of
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our members.
Macbeth,
I believe that you have laid the conundrum bare (how's that for
grammar?). The problem being is that operating 9 and operating X is as
different as operating a handsaw and operating a circular saw - they
achieve the same end but in vastly different ways.
Because of this extreme difference, I believe that you have to separate
the two groups, leaving it up to the members to steer themselves to
which group(s) they want to learn from. Far from being "egotistical," I
believe that it is the duty of the leadership to lead their members into
unchartered waters to help them learn and overcome what fears they may
have developed.
Will this be accomplished overnight? Of course not. But taking it too
slowly will mean a steeper learning curve down the line.
Petrie
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There are only two industries that call their customers "users" -
software and drugs.
-Janpieter Scheerder, president of SunSoft, speaking at the IT
Forum in New York as quoted in Information Week
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