On 6/18/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 6/18/07 4:10 PM, Ray Saintonge at
saintonge(a)telus.net wrote:
>> I was describing, not prescribing. For better or worse, your RFA is
>> the place where you essentially voluntarily put yourself under the
>> microscope. In a way, it's like a job interview, with all that
>> entails.
>>
> It's quite rare for a company to put all job interviews on a closed
> circuit TV network to its entire staff so that even the most menial
> employees can vote on whether that interviewee will get a management job.
It has happened, famously, with some workers' cooperatives, and they
inevitably fail for obvious reasons. Yet we persist in doing it here
-- and worse, because we have no idea who our "menial employees" are,
or whether we have one person filling several jobs -- using the excuse
that adminship is "no big deal." Ditch that attitude, and we would
quickly find a way to deal with some of our problems. So long as it's
in place, there's no will to find creative solutions.