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I am thinking my process is working really well, perhaps too much so.
Thanks to everyone for their responses and input.
ron
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Subject: RE: Credit where credit is due??
There is a downside to being given credit - if you find yourself being
hailed as a hero, then your process probably isn't working. Heroes pull
it
out at the last minute, bypass the process, get large amounts of
recognition, and don't have to apologize for lesser quality. Sometimes
it
seems like you do become invisible when your process is working well.
Carolyn
> After a while, though, I came to the conclusion that our profession
> owned much of the responsibility for this type of oversight (note that
I
> am not implying that this is true in Mr Hearn's case, of course).
>
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