Anna,
Sometimes I wonder if hope isn’t at the base of it
all. Perhaps hope is
necessary but certainly not sufficient for it all to transpire. Hope is not
a strategy. But maybe it's a foundation.
Certainly, but there is an old saying about "the triumph of hope over
experience". The general tenor of your comments suggest that you are less
interested in learning from the past as you are planning for the future. I
merely suggest that the two go hand in hand.
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I don't have time to investigate this statement and work to piece together
what happened, and since I don't have that time, I will not comment in any
way on this particular instance.
That is your decision, but it means that you will learn nothing from it.
Generally, I am thinking about community service
training across the
organization. I would love your help with that. I can do little about the
past. I can address the future. To properly address the future, ad hoc and
particular solution sets won't suffice. We'll need coherent and general
solution sets, with enough particulars to keep the solution set honest.
I am not sure what you mean by "community service" here. In the UK, it is
a form of punishment given to young offenders for anti-social behaviour. I
assume you mean something different?
I didn’t say that we didn’t have a Roadmap. I said
that I did not know.
and extraordinarily unusual that a person at your
level in the
organisation should not know of its existence and be able to confirm at
least whether or not it exists.
Agreed.
One caveat: I am a Director in Talent and Culture. Please allow me to
explain. You may have noticed we’ve had some talent and culture challenges
as of late. I’m sure you can imagine how those challenges could keep me
(one of two senior leaders in a department of 10, 5 of whom are solely
dedicated to recruiting and 1 dedicated solely to employee benefits),
relatively busy. Although I agree with you in principle, I’m just asking
you to see how under those circumstances it could make sense that a
Director in T&C might not be up to date on what is going on relative to
Product Roadmaps.
However, I am here now.
You must be aware that your answer suggests at a
bare minimum the
possibility that you, as an officer of the WMF, are evading the question.
That possibility genuinely never occurred to me. Evading the
question? Quite the contrary, Rogol. I have answered in the most exposing
and real way possible. I have said, "I don’t know", on a public mailing
list. Talk about a total lack of spin! I think that is in the
Wharton-Business-School
<http://executiveeducation.wharton.upenn.edu/for-individuals
?gclid=CMGp9YTnhtICFURqfgod_AYI_g&slx=NAM_BRAND&ef_id=WFbx
6wAAAN1GRt7g:20170211003858:s>-what-not-to-do
manual... admit that you don't know something in public.
The underlying quesrion, as was sure you would have recognised, is not "Do
you Anna Stillwell happen to know whether or not the WMF has a technical
roadmap ..." but "Does the WMF have a technical roadmap and if so please
will the WMF publish it." Perhaps I failed to make that clear, and you
were assuming I was asking a more personally specific but significantly
less useful version. My long-standing question, then, remains unanswered:
*Does the WMF have a technical roadmap and if so please will the WMF
publish it.*
If I may be so bold, it seems that your interpretation
of my words lacks
even basic faith. It seems to be the penultimate worst possible
interpretation (the worst being lying, the second... evading).
I can only go by what I see as a pesistent refusal to address this issue
over many weeks by multiple members of the WMF staff.
But your nearly automatic interpretation may point to
a deeper issue. I
hear you saying that you don't take me at my word. That you may not take us
at our word. And I imagine that we have done some things to earn your
distrust. I hear you.
But I assure you that I am telling you the truth now: I do not know.
Do you propose to take any steps to find out? If you do, please will you
let the community know?
Ok. How do you pronounce your fictitious name? I asked
around, “Hey, how do
you pronounce Rogol’s fictitious name”? Everyone pronounced it differently.
Some had a hard g. Some had a soft one. Some placed emphasis on the first
syllable. Some on the second.
I couldn’t stop laughing. I said to them, “But he’s made up…. how can you
be *so sure*?”
Philippe Beaudette pronounced it acceptably it in the July 2015 Metrics
Meeting, see, or rather listen to,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXWNGEht9lU&feature=youtu.be
"Rogol"