Edward, Brian wasn't recommending you cram it down anyone's throats. I'm with him on this. I think you need to take a more professional tack.
"Get some feedback AFTER you have something written. YOU are the expert, and this is what YOU are getting paid for." If you truly want their assistance with it I think you need to give them something to get the conversation started, and reduce your 2nd email to a 1/4 of it's original length at most. On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <lop...@nedharvey.com>wrote: > > From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On > > Behalf Of Brian Mathis > > > > ... > > > > I understand the impulse to get everyone together and be the nice guy > > about this, but you can't. > > The reason why I'm unwilling to simply choose a policy as I see fit, and > cram it down their throats, is because I expect compliance without using > punishment as the motivation factor. This necessitates that people feel > some voluntary commitment and understanding of the rules. People will do > whatever is expedient, unless they know there's a reason not to. > > Whenever punishment is the motivation factor, the response is not to > comply, > but to conceal. Just ask anybody with a baby, or any dog trainer. *That* > is what doesn't work. > > At the company where EXE and ZIP and such files are prohibited from > download, people just use their USB sticks, and starbuck's across the > street, to get their job done. > > Thank you for the feedback, but you and I fundamentally disagree with each > other. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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