[Grovenet] This is funny!

[Allen Warren]

In my career I've led teams as a Program/Project Manager.  I've also provided lots of training to people (and teams) on the process and execution of Program/Project Management.

One of the keys to leading a team to success is creating what's called a Program/Project Charter.  The Charter details the program/project "contract", with one of the most important elements being the definition of Success, i.e. how will the team be measured as successful.

When I look at government, the big problem I always see is in cases just such as the Iraq war, a success measurement is never established.  Sure, GW stated numerous times he wanted to ferret out and destroy Hussein's weapons of mass destruction along with stopping terrorism.  But where did he ever outline how he would measure the success of our incursion into Iraq?

I guess maybe this is one of the biggest differences between the corporate and government world.  In government it's all about making promises.  In the corporate world it's all about delivering results.

 
Allen Warren

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From: Katie Allnutt <allnutt at verizon.net>
To: Forest Grove local interests list <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 8:31:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] This is funny!

It sure was nice back in the good old days when victory in a war  
meant that you could bring your soldiers home.
Somehow with Iraq and the hard core Republicans, victory means that  
we get to leave our soldiers there as long as possible. (Dumber than  
buffalo patties here too.)
I just don't see the logic behind declaring victory as a signal to  
President Obama that he better keep more troops there longer.

If the far right insists on Congress declaring victory in Iraq then  
they should also have the guts to define victory in Iraq as well.  
Recently, news is leaking out that there is an average of a bomb a  
day going off somewhere in Iraq. Most are small to be sure but some  
are not so small.  It would be nice to know that the Republicans  
think that a bomb a day is included in the definition of Bush's  
glorious victory so they don't come back 6 months from now with their  
panties in a wad because there is a bomb every other day in Iraq thus  
President Obama has unwon the war.

Katie
PS I love the language that they use -- Bush 'secured victory'.  They  
like to use secure as a verb but never as an adjective. You just  
don't hear them say Bush won a secure victory.