X-Message-Number: 7189
Date: 	Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:36:42 -0800
From:  (Olaf Henny)
Subject: Message #7176 From Charles Platt <>

>To Steve Bridge:
>
>I think the term "management experience" usually implies "a managerial
>position in a business," which suggests something entrepreneurial. Of
>course, others may disagree. But my friends in non-profit organizations
>such as ACLU certainly don't talk about having management experience,
>while my corporate friends do, and I don't think any CEO of a cryonics
>organization (including CryoCare) currently has this kind of >background.

I am somewhat puzzled as to the gist of this thread.  Are you 
trying to prove, that you are capable of providing a definition 
of "management experience', that no present head of any 
cryopreservation can match, or is there a point to all this, which I fail to
grasp?

Fast food chains advertise often for "management trainees",
presumably, so that they can get a reasonably bright youngster to 
sling hamburgers for minimum wages, with this title making up the difference
in compensation.  Again presumably, after his/her "trainee" 
period is up, s/he will start to accumulate "management experience".

Then there is the hardware store owner, who does his/her own book keeping,
meets a pay-roll and therefore appears to meet your 
criterion for "management experience"/entrepreneur.

At last, there are all those managers on the various steps of the corporate,
right up to CEO, with experience in motivating individuals 
as well as co-ordinating the efforts and exigencies of a number of
departments in order to create a sound, cohesive and streamlined operation.
Due to lack of "entrepreneurialsm" you appear to discount
the talents of all these individuals in favour of the hardware store owner.

So, please let us all know, what you are driving at [ ;-)we are all sitting
on the edge of our seats (-; ], or quit, what looks to me like an
unsubstantiated innuendo of incompetence toward people who do a difficult
pioneering job in a new field, and who are severely underpaid for it.

Have a *good* day,

Olaf
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 Greed is a very positive motivating force.  Without it (the desire to 
 possess) man would still not have captured the fire, and would probably 
 still be swinging from the trees in some of the warmer regions of this globe.
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