You think? Sorry, I sit on the sidelines and watch all this and all I can say is, it figures.
I wanted to participate in the Marketing Project a year ago but the general attitude toward those who were volunteers - not employees and the politics just turned me off to it. I still subscribe to this list just to keep an eye on what's going on because I am still a Community Distributor and I still support OpenOffice.org. Unfortunately, I find this Marketing Project somewhat disorganized and this is one example that proves my point. I have fourteen years in broadcasting myself and I could have contributed to this interview had I been involved. An opportunity such as this does not come every day and if you are ill prepared to seize it don't expect it again too soon as it doesn't always knock twice, at least not on your time schedule. The lack of response is unfortunate but based on my observations of this group over the last couple of years it is to be expected. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 8:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Marketing] Looking to do a briefinterview about openoffice.org? On Sat, 2006-19-08 at 14:02 +0200, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: > But maybe nobody reacted because everybody thought it was someone else's > job to do so, and they didn't want to do anything wrong. So maybe what > we need is some directions from the project leader on how to react if we > see a mail on the list from somone outside the project, and it obviously > needs to be answered. It might be that no one reacted because they didn't want flack if they got it wrong. But that means that fear of being wrong paralizes the project. I think it's important to delegate work (e.g. to MarCons) and let them make reasonable judgements without fear of reprimand. Accept that the people you delegate work to may not do everything exactly the way the project lead would have done it, but that having an effective project is more important than getting your way all the time (even if you /are/ right about the details). The job of a manager/lead is not to approve every little action, but to delegate. MarCons and other volunteers are resources, and the manager's job is to manage those resources effectively. The fact that there are 5 MarCons in North America who could have replied here and none of them did tells me that the project's resources are not being managed properly. Cheers, Daniel. -- http://opendocumentfellowship.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men." -- George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
