Re: [SAGE] Help! Multiple platforms in a Dell Shop

[Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>]

At 3:17 AM -0800 2006-01-13, Jennifer Davis wrote:

>>>   I don't think encouraging people to consider themselves a soulless cog in
>>>   a machine is very appropriate or professional.
>>
>>  	You may not like what I said, but that doesn't make it any less accurate.
>
>  Disagree.  It's a way of looking at the glass.  Half empty, half full,
>  enough, not enough.. whatever the case may be.

	What you're describing are matters of perception.  But matters of 
perception don't change facts.

	The simple fact is that most of us are unlikely to be working in 
a place where we've got much in the way of authority to actually 
enforce company policies on upper management, although we are likely 
to be in positions where we are responsible for ensuring that company 
policies are followed by all users -- upper management included.

	How you perceive that fact is a totally different matter.


	Yes, we may be able to cajole, wheedle, inform, influence, or do 
a whole lot of other things to/with upper management, to try to 
convince them to adhere to the same company policies that everyone 
else has to.

	But that's still completely different from having the authority 
to outright enforce the policies.


	You have to know the boundaries between your circle of concern 
and your sphere of influence.

-- 
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