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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:11:52 -0500 Lance Albertson |
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> <ramereth@g.o> wrote: |
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> | I partially agree that a strong council will help the situation, but |
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> | the problem with any leadership-by-committee model is the lack of |
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> | quick decisions. Many times things come up that need a quick |
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> | resolution (when I say quick, I mean within a few days). And if you |
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> | have a committee of 7 or so people that live in several different |
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> | timezones, its extremely hard to get them together to discuss it all. |
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> Mmm, afaics there's nothing preventing the council from having quick, |
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> 'as needed' informal interim meetings with whoever happens to be around. |
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> If a few people aren't there, it's not as big a deal as if people don't |
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> show up to the monthly meetings. Heck, the monthly meetings could be |
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> considered a minimum... |
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True, that might work, but then you run the risk of losing cohesion of |
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what everyone knows. To me, the same person(s) should be at all those |
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meetings if possible. Its better to have one or two people who know |
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whats going on with all council-related stuff than one here, one there. |
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It can become disjointed rather easily. |
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> | The council has its merits, but it also has its weaknesses, this one |
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> | being one of them. I think I mentioned 6mo ago that we could keep the |
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> | council, but select one person to sort of be the "operational lead" |
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> | to make quick decisions so that development moves on. |
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> What happens if he or she (ok, he) isn't around? Is the flexibility of |
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> having a single "on the spot decision" leader enough to outweigh the |
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> disadvantages over allowing mini meetings? |
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I thought of that while I was walking to a meeting..heh Basically, |
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Appoint two people to co-lead, or appoint one Lead and one Vice Lead. |
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That way there's some kind of accountability on the bare minimum level |
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and good coverage (hopefully). |
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