On 12-Mar-99 Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William X. Walsh" writes:
>
> > > You feel quite comfortable with what you are saying?
> > >
> >
> > From reading Ronda's comments yes I do.
> >
> > I don't see her comments as being on topic at all, and I think that in this
> > situation they were more than generous in the leeway they permited her, and
> > indeed in presenting her written comments to participants as an alternative
> > view.
>
> She exists. And she makes some very important points.
I don't agree that her points are that important, but nonetheless, lets assume
they are for this purpose.
If we are having a meeting to decide if our company should open up into the
market in Country X, should we permit someone to have the floor at such a
meeting to only argue that we shouldn't market our product at all? The
decision to market the product had already been made, and nothing at this
meeting could change that. This meeting is not the place to make that
argument, this meeting was for the narrowling defined purpose of deciding
whether to market the product in a particular area.
The meeting had a set of parameters of what the meeting's purpose and topic
was. Ronda's statements were outside the scope of those parameters and
purpose, and as such was not germaine to the topic at hand. I think they were
quite generous in the tolerance they showed in letting her present her comments
even in the limited fashion they did.
> By going after what she says, and not so much how she does it, you are
> proving her right in a way, do you know that?
>
> Manipulating the Rules of Order is older as Roberts' Rules (which I
> have read, by the way :-)-O). You'd be probably somewhat miffed too,
> if someone in disagreement with you was chairing a meeting and cut the
> microphone when you had the floor, wouldn't you?
>
> I am not commenting on the arguments advanced by either party, which I
> find non-contributory to the issue at hand.
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12-Mar-99
Time: 12:02:54
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