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Note 85.17      Something interesting dialog on the by-law change       17 of 18
TOPAZ::FRYDENLUND                                    24 lines   1-MAY-1991 13:03
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    I wonder how obvious it is to the average member that:
    
    In every organization bigger than three people, conflicts arise and
    some mechanism is developed to resolve it.  Politics is usually better
    than bloody noses (or worse) so politics always appears.
    
    The fact that some portion of a group is involved in issue resolution
    does not necessarily mean that that is their prefered activity.  For
    many it only means that it is a necessary activity for group
    interaction.
    
    Although I have little patience for those who engage in politics to the
    exclusion of all else, we all owe a debt to those who are willing to do
    some polittiticing so the rest can "work in relative peace
    
    Only when the process runs amok (as may be the case at the moment) is
    it a real problem.
    
    I hope the "outsiders" for whom we do all this don't lose sight of the
    fact that the current agony is probably an aberration and should not,
    in the long haul, cause them to sour on DECUS (so long as it continues
    to deliver technically).
    
    FRYD (;-)}