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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: "User Friendly" Transit
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <726045710snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 07:21:50 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- To assist you in your project, Dr Vandeman.
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- A. For *any* project:
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- 1. PLANNING: Getting your homework done.
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- 2. EXPERTISE: Attracting substantial professional interest (selling
- your plan to other experts in that and related fields).
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- 3. RESOURCES: Attracting finance and other capital (selling your plan
- to governments, banks, institutions and other investors).
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- 4. COOPERATION: Gaining broadly based acceptance (selling your plan to
- the wider community).
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- B. Then three steps:
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- 1. ISSUES: Determining just exactly what it is we are now together
- capable of achieving in practice.
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- 2. PROCESSES: Plotting a critical path through the various tasks we
- need to complete in order to bring the project to
- fruition on time and (hopefully) under budget.
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- 3. IMAGE: Establishing the acceptability of the final participants in
- terms of their track record in meeting B.2 above.
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- C. But three caveats:
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- 1. ISSUE DEADLOCK: When the negotiations get bogged down in arguing
- over the ordering of priorities.
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- 2. PROCESS DEADLOCK: When the negotiations get bogged down in arguing
- what paths are to be followed once the priorities
- have been set.
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- 3. IMAGE-LOSS DEADLOCK: When negotiators lose credibility and a new set
- of participants must to be brought in to start
- all over again, or the project simply shelved.
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- D. Finally:
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- BE PATIENT AND THOUGHTFUL ALWAYS.
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- It takes very many years of your life, yes?
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