Whoever comes and leaves are the wrong people?

[Brett Barndt]

This is a good one! I can't wait to read more about it. There are a
lot of saboteurs installed in those agencies though the last few
decades, particularly the last one.

As one example, the $500M alleged in Medicare fraud will never be
cleaned up because then the 75 year old opposition to the New Deal
will lose their main talking point. Even though as a change management
person who did clean up major structural problems in large
bureaucracies (banks owned by so called efficient private shareholders
who never come to shareholders' meetings), I know all it would take to
clean up that fraud. Failings in SEC under Levitt and others to
respond to industry whistle blowers we know personally through a few
degrees of separation about Madoff is another. EPA or Justice failings
to trap Massey, or Halliburton in the Gulf. The list goes on.

There are people put there for this express purpose, and they are
winning against the interests of the majority of American people
despite a Justice Dept and a SCOTUS all collecting tax money
paycheques and pensions.

That kind of remark on the record could be precisely because they saw
the potential of this format to actually fix things in the US
government! This format has fixed things everywhere. Very bad news for
some! I've seen the same behaviours in corporate for similar reasons
of preventing change.

Can't wait to read what may arise from this inquiry!

Good luck!

Best regards, Bbbbb

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Lucas Cioffi <lucas at athenabridge.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
> We've all heard that "whoever comes are the right people;" does that also
> imply that "whoever comes and leaves are the wrong people" too?  I'm
> wondering if any of you have experience with people leaving in anger?
> Here's my recent experience...
> My co-facilitator received this comment in response to a post-event survey:
>>
>> "I for one was not impressed, I traveled 275 miles to attend, cost the
>> government quiet a bit of money and left after the first breakout group.
>> There was not even enough of an introduction to let people know what exactly
>> what was going on.  Had I known that this was going to break out groups
>> talking about whatever with no actual solutions to what the problem was or
>> no direction on how to overcome the problem I would not have attended.  With
>> the budget being what it is I feel this was a total waste of money."
>
> Some more context:
>
> This was a workshop about internal transparency, held at a typical federal
> government agency in DC.
> This person is well-known as an opponent to change at the agency.
> The workshop was not an open space event nor advertised as an open space
> event, but it did include break-out groups and participants did populate an
> agenda wall for two breakout sessions.  Because of the similarities in
> design, I think this episode may be of interest to the group.
> These breakout groups were announced on the RSVP site, so this person had an
> opportunity to know what was going to happen at the event.  Of course people
> are busy so often they don't know what they're signing up for, and I'm not
> going to blame this person for that.
>
> Anyway, has someone ever left your event completely frustrated?  Did you do
> anything about it?  I look forward to your thoughts.
> Lucas
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