Elizabeth, I'm afraid I didn't explain myself well. It wasn't age
that I was thinking about so much as the training received during his
formative years when being taught how to manage well. I respect
older people in many ways and spend a lot of time learning from
them. (smile) Some of the most visionary and inventive people did
their best work after they turned sixty or even seventy. The thing
is that a lot of older people, not all, have trouble integrating the
internet and a decentralized work force into their concept of an
effective business. They seem to believe that if a team is going to
succeed, they must all work in the same location and fill out paper
forms for each action they take. That is the mind-set that I was
trying to describe and ask about. I don't know the staff members
outside of Bookshare, except for John who I have met socially at an
ACB convention or two. I feel like I'm trying to untangle spaghetti,
trying to find a strand that I can follow to the source and remove
that from the tangle, thereby reducing some of the snarl. Maybe I'm
a fool for trying, and maybe I'm looking in the wrong direction. To
me, the act of looking increases the chances that I'll find something
worth finding because it will make Bookshare better. I want this
system to be around in some form for our grandchildren.
Monica Willyard
Some of us old folks run effective projects so just you be careful now (smile)
all the best and remember that when you get older and work for other people less you will have more time to validate for bookshare. And do all let's remember that the word here is share. I as a volunteer do not feel shared with in building what I thought of as a co-operatively created library we can all enjoy.
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