Re: "We did not know" is not a good excuse

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 07 April 2016 16:38 UTC

Subject: Re: "We did not know" is not a good excuse
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>
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From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>
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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:37:57 -0700
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On 4/7/2016 9:30 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
>> On 7 Apr 2016, at 16:07, Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
>>   And I'll suggest that this is not an issue that one should try to 'game', such as by trying to obscure the choice by floating various venue possibilities or otherwise hoping that we haven't signaled the choice to a specific city/hotel.
>
> Such a process served us well in getting feedback on members of the I* until recently.
>
> I would have thought that it would pick up problems of the type that was identified last night without compromising our commercial position too badly.


Stewart,  if you are referring to the gaming that used to be done, when 
soliciting information about nomcom candidates, by padding the list of 
names with various non-candidates, in my experience on several nomcoms, 
no it did not work well at all.

d/


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   Dave Crocker
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