But if manager 1 looks you in the eye and says, 'It will be done in 2 weeks..I promise.' After two weeks, if it aint' done, he broke that promise.
To me, there are no gray areas of promises.You keep it or you don't. Period. There is no 'well he kind of did it'. Again, if he did think he could do it (which I think is the case. Why else would they have the provision to make exceptions in the Executive order?), the he should not have promised he would. He should have said he will reduce the number of lobbyists or that he will try to keep lobbyists out. But he didn't, he said NO lobbyists. And since a lobbyist has been appointed, he broke that promise. There is no analogy you can come up with that will make me think differently. Has he done something (a good something) no one else seemed to want to do? Absolutely. Did he keep his campaign promise about not appointing lobbyists? No. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Scott wrote: > > I am not trying to crap on him, I like the concept of what he is trying > to > > do with this situation. But, to me, he broke this particular campaign > > promise. > > > > I get it, but let me try .... AN ANALOGY! W00t! > > Ever manage development teams or a P&L? > > If so, you'll know that you generally have 2 types of managers. > > 1.) Those that tell you 1 month's worth of work will take 2 weeks, and > 2.) Those that tell you 1 month's worth of work will take 6 weeks. > > When you ask manager #1, "are you sure your team can move that fast?" > Usually he/she says, "I think so, so I'm going for it. If I don't > make it you can fire me." > > When you ask manager #2, "isn't that a lot of time for the amount of > work?" Usually he/she says, "Well there's a lot of unknowns and blah > blah blah." > > Personally I want all my manager to be of type 1, and I sure ain't > gonna complain if they come in at 3 weeks instead of 2. > > So you're violating the first rule of good management: don't let the > perfect be the enemy of the good. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287626 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
