To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (7782 ) 10/4/1998 3:21:00 AM From: d:oug Respond to of 14226
Jack, all your words and insight to me stand hollow against the way things work. Zeev is a heavy duty type scientist, and Richard is a top notch engineer+scientist, and both have been there as active participants in the types of events that require time tested methodologies. In my option, they both feel that the current management at GPGI may not have an understanding of what they are really up against. The fact that the GPGI Company ran its operation without using procedures that would have controlled and captured activities, tells me that certain skills were not available. Now a how to do, step by step, cook book type procedure write up has been created in a couple days to do what has not been done in the past. Rather than I continue on this serious note, let me type in a short story we all know. how to do manual to level a chair step 1 = modify real time each step if don't work step 2 = find shortest leg and shorten all other three legs step 3 = if chair level then done, else go to step 2 For the above example, what if that comic situation happens where the person doing the shorting doesn't use proper tools and only does the best he can do with only available limited resources, and the standard ending of the story happens when all four legs are cut down to stubs. Ending with just a seat left, no legs. If GPGI doesn't have the correct tools, it may end up with only the dirt left and a pile of saw dust that use to be an extraction process. And Jack, don't size up people by comparing them to others. Your interpretation has value only to convince yourself of being right. For example, Albert Einstein used mathematics as a tool in his exploration of physics. He asked a mathematician skilled in an area he was not, to help him learn this area. After about ten minutes Einstein stopped the man and asked him to start over again, and this time go slower. Einstein told the man "I learn very slowly". Jack, in your past, your business, what areas needed people types that learned very slowly. Seems like the people running GPGI learn very fast. I wonder what they learned. Since GPGI has the handle on the hic-up and does not need help from any outside source like this thread, then all we can do is talk about it. I leave this post with a post from the IPMCF thread, modified for GPGI. as rain is needed before the rainbow that ends in a pot of gold is gotten then enought tears from gpgi shareholders has been sent to the upper sky to duplicate that what rain will do and maby soon the tears will end and your rainbow will appear with the Mike's Manual at the end being as good as the pot of gold at another rainbows end Doug