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In article <1992Dec16.235647.4684@spcvxb.spc.edu>, killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff
Killeen) writes:
>	1) The case is being made that leadership is out of touch because .2
>percent (20/1000=.2%) of the leadership does not attend sessions.  What I said
>the 1000 or so members of leadership are reflective of the active members to
>which the response is "Au contraire" because it can be shown 20 of them don't
>attend sessions.  The actions of 20 don't imply the actions of the other 980.

DECUS, like most organizations, concentrates power at the top. Those 20 people,
if they are out of touch, probably hurt DECUS more than any 100 other people
could. I'm not saying they are all out of touch. I only know even the names of a
handful of them, and don't know hardly any of them well enough to know whether
they are out of touch. However, they system makes it easy for them to be out of
touch, so over the long haul, many of them will be.

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You follow this with the statement:

>For exactly the reason stated that "no sane employer would pay a Board member
>to go to DECUS and learn nothing" most, if not all, of those 980 a high
>consumers of DECUS products. 

Which, according to the following:

>Several of the most destructive members of past senior leadership groups
>claimed that their opinions were valid because they attended sessions and
>campgrounds and understood the voice of the customer - when in fact all they
>heard was what would validated their already preconceived ideas.  

means nothing at all.
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