[TheForge] ABANA ANABA

Thu Jun 27 00:12:00 2002

George,

I feel for you, but the water over this  dam,  has already found its way to 
the ocean.

Bill Fiorini  probably has no clue who I am, but I have met, listened to, 
and  like him.

In my best judgement, this is a "No Win" situation for him, or any current 
or past  ABANA board members.

There is no profit or power motive: people like Bill serve a term or two on 
the ABANA board,  wear down, and vacate the position so that   someone else 
will serve.

Yes, Group dynamics, like  high school peer pressure can change how a given 
board of directors vote:  But from my experience, most "candidate"  members 
of a board when presented with the same set of issues/ facts will vote the 
same way.

Bar talk after a meeting, I have heard various (non-ABANA ) board members 
that found themselves having voted for, or voting against an issue , berate 
the leader that "won", but that doesn't change the position taken by the 
board on that given issue.

My point is that,  had you NOT been personally involved with   ABANA 
publications, but rather, if you were  a sitting  ABANA board member, that 
odds are you would have supported the ABANA board's position.

I believe that the worst mistake  is often not  the mistake, but rather not 
trying something that looks like it should be an improvement.

I say this from the perspective of being the occasionally "odd man 
out".  My one vote occasionally  changing the out come of an entire board 
of director vote. It only happens if you speak your case well, and present 
your issue  without an apparent  chip on your shoulder.  One quickly learns 
to spend their chips wisely.  Too many confrontations results in too few 
chips left to influence anything.   I also admit to being the one that 
"won  over" a few boards  to a view point that I later found to be "wrong".

Dann Johnson
Thompson, Iowa
NMMS, GoM, UMBA ABANA

At 08:34 AM 6/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>The bid package I refer to was signed for on in November of 2000.
>9am on a Thursday...does that help?
>
>G Dixon
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