Re: Lesson to All - Coke/New Coke, BeiMac Version
Re: Lesson to All - Coke/New Coke, BeiMac Version
- Subject: Re: Lesson to All - Coke/New Coke, BeiMac Version
- From: Emilie Unkrich <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:43:44 -0400
Greetings, David, from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA,
I sure enjoyed reading all that.
:-)
Emilie
Editor
Apple Bits
NEOAC
www.neoac.org
On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:56 AM, David Feng (Yan Feng/
馮巖) wrote:
On October 15, 2004, the Beijing Macintosh Union underwent a retransformation into the Beijing Macintosh User Group. The "interim Constitution" was only six articles long and could be read taking like 5% of breakfast time.
Moral: Take the group as Coke, and the union as New Coke. Before you change your group -- fundamentally -- consider the consequences. New Coke was supposed to be better than Coke. It wasn't. We wanted our BeiMac union to become (in bureaucratese "a democratic federation of all Macintosh people in Beijing". We had our union implode into itself, to the extent that we had to throw it the towel.
Moral 2: A good, vivace group is better than a group with 5,006 regulations nobody even has the time to read about. That's not a red alert for all groups to dump their Constitutions and Bylaws. But one has to know when to apply the red-tape brakes.
--
Those who march to a different drummer are in a magnificent
band indeed. :-) * Patricia Polacco from "The Graves Family"
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