On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
We are a little bit easier to adapt so we will need to figure out
how to do that.
You are the Apple of God.
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Sometimes I feel just like the pits.
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At 12:00 PM 8/9/2009, you wrote:
On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
We are a little bit easier to adapt so we will need to figure out
how to do that.
You are the Apple of God.
On Aug 6, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
You mean like ordering the $700 program when the $90 program works
just as well?
Good example. Imperial IT management always assumes that they know how
to do everybody's job better than the people who were hired to do the
job.
I
Good example. Imperial IT management always assumes that they know how
to do everybody's job better than the people who were hired to do the
job.
Tom is certified by the National Association of Petulance. He knows what
he's talking about.
I would love to see Tom's client list one day. I
OK I will bite on this one.
Obviously you have never had to live within budgets.
Very often many of us are being asked to do more with LESS
Which means the $700 program is not an option as
we cannot afford it. We have to make the bucks stretch over a bigger area.
So that means we do with
On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Obviously you have never had to live within budgets.
Very often many of us are being asked to do more with LESS
There are two ways to handle budget problems.
One is to cut back, fire highest-paid staff, run with the cheapest
There are two ways to handle budget problems.
Therein lies your problem: a total and complete lack of vision.
The real world isn't binary.
I'll leave it to our sad sack WFBs to struggle with doing less with
less.
We do just fine, since we don't have to pay the Apple tax.
OK I know I asked for you to respond but you are being a plain old
mass about it.
Tom many non-profits have very slim line budgets a few people on
their staff and many many volunteer workers.
We don't get the cheapest but we cannot afford the most expensive.
So unless you are paying the
On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Tom many non-profits have very slim line budgets a few people on
their staff and many many volunteer workers.
Yes, bad management tends to be a problem. I recently watched a once
prosperous church go through a change in management.
Tom 80% of the population go to megachurches.
However 80% of our churches are smaller single staff churches.
The only paid staff is me and I am there whenever they want me and do
a lot of work at home also.
Churches cannot be run like businesses. They are churches whole
different ball
Yes, bad management tends to be a problem.
Ya think?
Is this your flow chart?
Bad management? Yes
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Non-profits can have funding issues for all sorts of reasons aside from
management. Changes in city or state administrations can change funding
In many cases when a supporter dies the non-profit gets zilch.
Families have a tendency to look out for families.
I have had a few that before they got sick took the unprecedented
step of setting up trusts/endowments to look after non-profit or the
aims of the non-profit.
It is not common
On Aug 8, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Churches cannot be run like businesses. They are churches whole
different ball game.
By the way the management of any church is the parishioners!
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
But those of us who believe in the free market also
On Aug 8, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Non-profits can have funding issues for all sorts of reasons aside
from
management. Changes in city or state administrations can change
funding
priorities. Economic upheavals can drastically reduce giving or
endowments
with little warning.
Happening to the tune of about 30+ per week closing doors, or hiring
off the grid.
Stewart
At 09:34 PM 8/8/2009, you wrote:
Being a free-market Capitalist I would have to insist that it is a
management responsibility to navigate through such rough waters. If
times have changed and the need
Yes and no.
It always depends on what you are looking for.
There are things the megachurches can do that I cannot. I do not
compete with them on those criteria. Many of the folks looking want
that criteria and they go there.
We offer some different things that megchurches cannot offer.
Being a free-market Capitalist
You owe me a new monitor. This one has a spit-take all over it.
I would have to insist that it is a
management responsibility to navigate through such rough waters.
And they do, but not as the status quo. Hard choices are made quite often,
to ensure the
So, if the systems that you are charged with maintaining are up a
cumulative 99.9% of the time, as you described in a previous message
on this subject, when do you ever do any real work? What amount of
time in a week does that missing 1/10 of one percent represent? How
long does it take,
Today, I have to convince a drama queen that she doesn't need a new $450
How come there are no drama kings?
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How come there are no drama kings?
I've got plenty. I'll lend you a couple if you're light.
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On Aug 6, 2009, at 7:43 AM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Today, I have to convince a drama queen that she doesn't need a new
$450
program, when she has a tendency to throw up her hands when faced
with the
slightest learning curve or unexpected hiccup, and there is a
shared system
outside her office
Yes, I forgot that one. Imperial IT telling the poor schmucks who
actually have work to do that they have to do the work in the way
that is most convenient for IT. You want to use the good software,
then you can stand in line with all the other schmucks to get your
turn.
Right on schedule.
Yes, I forgot that one. Imperial IT telling the poor schmucks who
actually have work to do that they have to do the work in the way
that is most convenient for IT. You want to use the good software,
then you can stand in line with all the other schmucks to get your
turn.
So, IT should do
On Aug 6, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Chris Dunford wrote:
So, IT should do whatever its users tell it to? What kind of
management is that?
That is the difference between imperial IT and IT that serves the
needs of the business. Imperial IT manages by telling the workers
what they can't do.
You mean like ordering the $700 program when the $90 program works
just as well?
Stewart
At 07:07 PM 8/6/2009, you wrote:
That is the difference between imperial IT and IT that serves the
needs of the business. Imperial IT manages by telling the workers
what they can't do. Well-managed IT
You mean like ordering the $700 program when the $90 program works
just as well?
It seems like the only solution template Tom has: let the inmates run the
asylum. He sees Nurse Ratched in manager's offices everywhere.
I found a solution to my $450 drama queen problem. I was able to get an
You named the problem right there.
Adobe usually overprices their stuff by a ton.
Stewart
At 08:28 PM 8/6/2009, you wrote:
You mean like ordering the $700 program when the $90 program works
just as well?
It seems like the only solution template Tom has: let the inmates run the
asylum. He
Since IT was never around they didn't
have a clue that there were problems. IT thinks everything runs.
My users can get a hold of me 8 different ways:
-Send an email to the help desk which automatically opens a ticket in the
system and sends an email to everyone in IT.
-Send me an email
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Jeff Wrightjswri...@gmail.com wrote:
What you described is what we in the field would call a poorly run
business. IT is taking its cues from the top, as the company circles the
drain.
So, if the systems that you are charged with maintaining are up a
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