> Bruce wrote: > I love it how people who have neither served or have never been to > combat talk on and on about how "they" would fight such and such > conflict. Gotta love them armchair quarterbacks. >
I say I can run a property development company to staggering profits never having been a property developer. I say that this company: http://www.bain.com Gets their clients profits 30% about the S&P 500 and their consultants have typically never worked in the industries they re-architect. How can this be you say? How can you fix a business you have no experience in? How can you manage a team of soldiers if you have been in war? Because well run endevours all have the same things in common: they're SMART. Once you recognize that you can do anything. It's a great life philosophy for jobs, home life, war, whatever. Once you do things SMART then all you have to is execute which includes finding a good team (and even when people do things SMART if they don't have a good team that can execute, they'll fail). As for time-bound, it means that given that you've chosen a specific goal, you should be able to plan such that you'll finish by time x. A good plan will, therefore, have some slop built into it for unforeseen items and contingency paths for things that may happen, but not for sure. For Iraq what this meant was that they should've been able to achieve their goal by time X and leave OR have a worked contingency plan to exit should they not have met that goal. They did not and do not. Thus the commander-in-chief has failed his troops and should be removed from command. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246919 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
