Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Hi T! I was at the game yesterday in Norman. It's kind of like Tennessee last night. They were up against a really tough team. Circumstances did not favor victory for them. In the end, they didn't completely achieve their objective (winning the game). But they fought hard, never gave up, and earned the respect of thousands of Sooner fans. I would imagine their objective was to win the game, and they had a plan supported by strategies they had developed to do just that. But imagine if their objective was not necessarily to win the game. Imagine if all they really cared about was making a few first downs and maybe kicking a field goal or two. Do you think they would have done as well as they did?
I'm not an expert at labor relations or negotiating. Once we have a clearly defined objective, I suspect we have the talent and expertise available to us to develop an appropriate plan with strategies designed to achieve the objective. But until we define that objective, we're just a rudderless ship going wherever the current takes us.
On a side note... It was kinda funny today at the OKC airport. I had the jumpseat on an MD-88 back to ATL. The flight was big time oversold and they were asking for volunteers. Cracked me up every time they asked if their were any "volunteers" in the gate area and all the folks wearing orange shirts looked up!
Interesting analogy. bUTch Jones' philosophy in rebuilding Tennessee football to it's former level has been "brick by brick". He now has the foundation. We will build upon that with great recruiting, and continuing to schedule hard opponents. He has never simply stated "we are gonna win." Team 118 will build on the foundation we now have. dALPA is doing the same. brick by brick.
You, on the other hand have yet to supply me with a strategy other than continually repeating your objective. Set goals. Make a statement. I get it, but neither is a strategy. I am asking what YOU would do to get us from your goal/objective statement to one of realizing those goals. And I do not believe for a second that you would be satisfied if dALPA came out and made the simple statement that "restoration" was our objective.
The gatehouse story was very funny.
GBO/VFL