On 16 Apr 2016, at 8:54 am, Justin Couch <[email protected]> wrote: > The whole reason I'm getting involved in this is to get the government out of > the sport as much as possible. <snip> > We have a choice: we can either sit back in our rocking chairs on the porch > and complain about it, or get off our arses and make sure the rules get bent > in a way that works for our benefit rather than having rules imposed on us > that we don't like. I'm in the second camp
The third element worth including with the 2 processes above, is for the current generation of administrators to go the extra mile to bring on-board the elder-statespeople of the sport. After 67 years the organisation has gone through enough cycles of ‘do it our own way’/‘do it the regulator’s way’ to have evidence from the past to help us understand which bits of each serve us best. The limitation is that the current administrators haven’t been around long enough to hold that corporate memory; hence the tendency to try to re-learn old gains/losses by doing it all over again themselves. I mentioned the Valentine Cycle to Drew in the Ops context and he seemed to have a vague idea about it (but he didn’t incorporate it into the Safety Seminar as a result of which it lacked some of the punch that it could have had) and this has just as much impact in the admin, a/w, sports and development streams. ‘If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you are unlikely to have any idea where you might be heading or how to get there; let alone any real certainty about where you are right now’. The evidence from the past is that when you can demonstrate that the sport knows and applies the stuff suited to its unique needs, the hierarchy both relies on the sport as the source of standards and gives freedom of processes to apply them. That at least is how I got piece of paper out of CASA 15 years ago. And my experience in the mainstream working world as a Commissioner of the Court holds the same to be true. Emilis. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
