Re: [OT] System Conversion - An Overview
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- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:54:46 +0000 (UTC)
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Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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All in all, it is usually a good thing to remember what Machiavelli had
to
say about the introduction of new systems
<http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232.txt>
--begin quoted text:
And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to
take
in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,
then
to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Only if you're a sissy. REAL Men embrace change and have no problem with
being responsible for it. :-)
Just like military officers have no problems leading their men over the
tops of the trenches... and the Gallipoli-like results which may ensue.
Death or Glory! THAT's the stuff for REAL men...
Such 'REAL men' seem to ignore some simple, basic teachings that have held
for a few millennia, it seems... Qoh.IX:4 - 5: 'For to him that is joined
to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead
lion. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any
thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is
forgotten.'
Or as a more modern author put it, 'Is there glory in a little heap of
whitened bones?'
[snip]
The important point here is that in industry, when implementing change,
people don't normally die.
That does not necessitate the conclusion, Mr Dashwood, that no lessons
from the military might be learnt.
[snip]
That might be the case, as well... but for me, I will leave lobbying to
the lobbyists and selling to the salesfolk; they have their jobs and I
have mine.
That's fine if you have the people... :-)
I'd disagree... it seems readily accepted that not everyone can be a
decent programmer; in like manner not everyone can be a decent lobbyist or
salesperson. If someone of the right skills/temperment is not there to do
a given job then the job tends to get done badly or not at all.
One can hook an Arabian stallion up to a wagon to haul bricks... but if
one has a lot of hauling to do one might consider getting a more
appropriate Clydesdale.
[snip]
I don't know many folks who spent time in modern Board
Rooms who have become Pope, as did Rodrigo Borgia.
I heard that most Cardinals in the Catholic Church do Business Studies and
are required to put some time in managing aspects of the Church's financial
empire,(career progression?). Some are even Ivy League graduates (could be
Honorary Degrees...)
I have heard many things... some of them I've even seen myself. I don't
know of a Pope lately who comes from the ranks of what you describe as
'most Cardinals'.
The modern Church, like modern Business, is a very long way from how things
were done in the Middle Ages.
As the Germans say, Mr Dashwood, 'plus ca change, plus c'est la meme
chose'; those who learn what Santayana said about the mistakes of the past
are doomed to repeat it.
DD
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