[Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

[Marc Riddell]

>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
>> To: <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
>> <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example
>> 
>>> [...] Wikipedia is one of the
>>> biggest websites in the world. Obviously that is not how the reality of
>>> our
>>> success is measured.
>> 
>> Of course not. The reality of its success would be: being a comprehensive
>> and reliable reference source.  It is not, yet.
>> 
>> Peter
> 
on 9/26/10 7:09 AM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud at fairpoint.net wrote:

> When you're a big success it is very hard to continue to take the
> necessary actions to achieve genuine greatness. The usual response to
> suggestions of change is to circle the wagons.
> 
Yes. And a part of true greatness is the willingness, and the limitless
ability, to innovate and to evolve.

Three quotes come to my mind regarding this:

* - "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really
living." -- Gail Sheehy

* - "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them." - Albert Einstein

And, to describe what the Project did in the beginning:

* - "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marc