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: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:46:10 +0100
On 15 Oct 2004, at 13:56, David Feng (Yan Feng/
馮巖) wrote:
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.
Precisely why we run as a benevolent dictatorship.
People get all het up about roles, responsibilities, fame and "respect".
So, here, no-one has any roles, no-one but me has responsibilities, no-one gets any fame and certainly no-one gets respect unless they get it by merit.
We don't have articles, we don't have formal memberships, just a loose union of people.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
M
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