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

Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> Thu, 07 April 2016 16:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: "We did not know" is not a good excuse
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> On 7 Apr 2016, at 16:07, Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
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>  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