The predictability of PYAG

 L123456

Blimey - Must be a tough day at the grindstone to radiate such 'goodwill' in whatever organisation is blessed with your abundant enthusiasm.   You are sounding a right bundle of laughs today.  

If you ever make business decisions of value you will find not everything works in business - at least not at the first attempt. 

I've been extremely lucky to have been in the sort of roles where these kind of key decisions do get made for much of my career and across more than one sector.  You don’t always get things right, sometimes it is the wrong time, sometimes when partnering with other organisations things can fail, in fact loads of things can screw up.  They don’t always but nobody or any company ever succeeds in anything worth doing without taking  business risks.  Fortunately enough things do work out for some of us and it is then highly satisfying as well as being rewarding.  This has happens enough of the time to me to make the occasional setbacks very bearable I find.  

Setbacks should educate the future .. and are part of the business process that in time leads to better products and approaches.  Learning to deal with problems and challenging the previous assumptions rather that finger pointing, blame gaming, sulking or simply giving up is what we should all be doing.  This is one attitudinal area where US business is often so much better than you generally see in the UK – they get over ‘it’ more quickly, redefine their objectives and approach and get back ‘at it’ again.  They are taught or learn to expect and to deal with problems – in the UK while we can and do shine in some areas we still have a tendency to go all ‘British Leyland’ in others if you get me drift.

Quite possibly you missed out on the ‘golden years’ of BL – I suspect however you might have been right at home there….you do still have a Laser don’t you so maybe the right ‘retro’ instinct is a given for you.. ;-)     

BTW  I’m almost willing to bet good money you will still be in one when a future ‘Icon’ based project does succeed with its newest builder. 

Now can we please just get back to the Britiush Moth handicap ....

 

I don't know who else is on the PYAG, but I like the Chairman.  

Edited by turnturtle - 07 Mar 16 at 5:11pm

You know, the 2 people involved who stick their heads above the parapet are connected with 2 of the biggest losers on the lists this year, the 300 and the Cherub. If they are gerrymandering, they aren't doing it very well.

As to why the Icon failed which it hasn't yet any more than the Alto or the X1 Xo has failed was because they changed horses mid race, for whatever reason the switch to and from Devoti was probably not a wise decision, but the single biggest problem was the deliberately punitive number given by the yardstick authority based on what must have been very dubious stats.

Now I seriously have no axe to grind with the Icon, I just hate to see, corruption in whatever form it takes ruining an activity that I'm enthusiastic about. Now wether you take the term corruption to mean something other than in its financial sense, or not, makes no difference (It is actually the data or software that must be corrupt). That there have been cases in the past and present of class protectionism is fact and borne out in lots of examples, so in this day and age, deliberately setting out to kill a boats chances of becoming a class, wether it is a battle between commercial organisations or actual class members or affiliates in the authority gifted with the job of creating a fair playing field, makes not a lot of difference to me, but the simple fact it is happening right there in front of us all is morally wrong.

Wether 'they' are volunteers or not, 'they' are not transparent and it may be a thankless onerous task which I'm sure hundreds will come and applaud, but my view remains that the job is not being done as well as it could be and I stand by that. Given it was also suggested to me that their hands are tied anyway, which also seems pretty pointless if they cannot over rule obviously corrupt data.

Edited by iGRF - 07 Mar 16 at 5:36pm

Originally posted by Cirrus  L123456 Blimey - blah blah blah ...