Don't agonize, organize ... that's my mantra. Change won't happen unless you work to make it happen! But sometimes even your best efforts don't provide the results you were looking for. Or sometimes a situation is just so completely outrageous that all you can do is say ... YIKES!
I had the pleasure of meeting her once, at a conference, and getting to actually have a conversation. We ended up talking about the military, and I asked why we needed four separate branches that were providing overlapping services. There was a news report at the time about how one of them (and I am dating myself with this comment) had developed a fax maching that could withstand a nuclear blast. It cost something like $700,000 dollars. Once ONE branch had it, they suddenly ALL wanted one -- at a cost of several million dollars to the tax payer.
One of my first questions was "who will be around to send the fax?"
It was a lively discussion, that I'm sure I'm not doing justice here! ha
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Good piece. And I haven't thought of Pat in years. Run, Pat, Run!"
I even donated.
I had the pleasure of meeting her once, at a conference, and getting to actually have a conversation. We ended up talking about the military, and I asked why we needed four separate branches that were providing overlapping services. There was a news report at the time about how one of them (and I am dating myself with this comment) had developed a fax maching that could withstand a nuclear blast. It cost something like $700,000 dollars. Once ONE branch had it, they suddenly ALL wanted one -- at a cost of several million dollars to the tax payer.
One of my first questions was "who will be around to send the fax?"
It was a lively discussion, that I'm sure I'm not doing justice here! ha
BAC
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