CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Rita
Conflict with Existing Methods
Uncle Jim, Aunt Barbara

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0606 - Summary/Objective
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060701 - Follow up ref SDS 1 0000.
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060703 - Rita called 950909 and invited us to a family gathering at their home
060704 - in Sacramento today.
060713 -  ..
060714 - Uncle Jim mentioned our correspondence last year on 940722, where he
060715 - submitted comments on NWO. ref SDS 1 8388  I mentioned the meeting at
060716 - Intel a few days ago on 950927, that shows slow progress in the market
060717 - place about opportunities for using technology to improve the practice
060718 - of management. ref SDS 4 3920
060720 -  ..
060721 - Today, he urged me to stick with efforts using technology for better
060722 - management, despite cultural inertia against improvement.
060724 -  ..
060725 - We discussed the challenge of introducing better work practices.  Many
060726 - have asked me to press on with SDS, POIMS and Com Metrics, for example
060727 - on 941129. ref SDS 2 6007  Despite the fact that SDS makes it fast and
060728 - easy to implement good management, there is strong resistance, because
060729 - it turns out that few people ever use good management.  This makes SDS
060730 - seem like unnecessary overkill, reported on 950204. ref SDS 3 5932
060732 -  ..
060733 - Uncle Jim said this is always the price of bringing forward a robust
060734 - idea.  He recalled his time in the Pentagon managing the C5 and other
060735 - big procurement programs.  He was later transferred to a duty station
060736 - in Atlanta, where he managed C5 flight test program.  I recall when
060737 - visiting them during 1967 that he used to periodically fly to Costa
060738 - Rica for C5 project meetings.  Today, Uncle Jim said don't be deterred
060739 - by resistance, because most of it is the product of a busy mind that
060740 - does not have time to think, and since that is the problem we are
060741 - solving, the only course is to push ahead.  Uncle Jim said there are
060742 - always pockets of people who are bright stars in every organization
060743 - and hunger for new ideas and methods, but it takes time to find them
060744 - and for conditions to line up so that progress can occur.  He said its
060745 - tough, but your young and strong.
060746 -
060747 -     [See discussion with Morris on effect of credibility, ref SDS 5
060748 -     9444, and on need to build faith. ref SDS 5 5090]
060750 -      ..
060751 -     [On 961006 Uncle Jim asks about difference between information an
060752 -     knowledge. ref SDS 6 0001
060754 -      ..
060755 -     [On 970522 Uncle Jim cited experience in the Pentagon reviewing
060756 -     ideas for improving management; encouraged persistance advancing
060757 -     Com Metrics. ref SDS 7 BK9N
060759 -      ..
060760 -     [On 000716 Professor Ransdell cautioned not to get discouraged by
060761 -     slow acceptance of SDS. ref SDS 8 7838
060763 -      ..
060764 -     [On 070226 Letter to Uncle Jim thanking him for ideas and
060765 -     encouragement over the years. ref SDS 9 OT6F
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