[TheForge] ABANA ANABA

[Larry and Pat Brown]

I'll second this
L Brown


At 11:04 PM 6/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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