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Subject: Re: Techwr-l Flashback
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:02:31 -0800

I think there's a difference between an organization where the process
is geared toward being able to adapt to rapidly changing requirements
from outside and one where there is no process inside just because
everyone does things their own way and identical operations are
being performed with radically different methods and tools from
person to person to person. In the former, having common processes
standardized can free up thinking and doing time to tackle the unplanned
ones; in the latter, nobody knows what anyone else is doing or how they're
doing it at any given time, and if someone gets sick or ticked off enough
to walk off the job whoever has to pick up the pieces is in for a world of
hurt.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>

One of my previous employers was exactly like that, but it was not for lack
of trying to organize better. THey were in a niche market competing against
some heavy duty multinational companies...and holding their own because they
could "turn on a dime" and give the customer immediate service. Ws it
frustrating working there? At times...but it was also highly creative and
most of the time a lot of fun. The reason, we were large enough to be
respected in the industry and yet small enough that it was not unusual to
have the company president working alongside you to solve a problem.
Would I do it again? In a heartbeat, but that me. People previous to me
left because the development efforts drove them crazy. I left because I
couldn't take the desert.

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Re: Techwr-l Flashback: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Techwr-l Flashback: From: Al Geist

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