Questions

[ajm]

At the beginning of this year, talking of "management" would have been a bit preposterous, I suppose. But now that FAH is (by far) the most powerful supercomputer on Earth, the question can be legitimately raised. I would even consider asking McKinsey if they wouldn't help define a stronger managerial concept, or something. As a courtesy of course.

Hmm. not sure I would ask Mckinsey for help in something that actually has to deliver results but asking them not to help define a stronger managerial concept seems like a good place to start

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Then ask them to analyse the market and the situation, so that we get a more accurate view of the whole. Typically, they will delineate several possibilities, not take over the management.

[Ricorocks]

Who is McKinsey?

[ajm]

Seriously?
https://www.mckinsey.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company

[Ricorocks]

Yeah!
Besides allot of scandals from Enron to Opioids, what's the relationship to F@h, if any?

[ajm]

None I suppose. They're just management specialists, people who can analyse an operation and its market, then define efficient ways to run it. And in my post, McKinsey was just a placeholder, a way to say that in light of FAH's expansion it might be appropriate to elaborate a management concept. And McKinsey, being a large company with lots of ressources, could have been convinced to do it for free. That was the idea. Now, if McKinsey is a problem in and of itself, let's ask someone else, or course...

[Ricorocks]

Wow! That would be taken as a LOL.. Fact of the matter is F@H's masters, treat donors like necessary evils, or disposable. Like migrant farm crop pickers, to the farm owner. F@H IMO had no plan, for the tidal wave of new donors, nor their departure. Nor do they view management 'donor related' necessary, not even a blip on the radar. Yes I understand it's all about the "Science", & I'm proud to contribute, but the arrogance, & worthlessness attitude toward donors, is bad; for the top 'dog' in DC computing. Many examples exist of top, dogs, reaching #1, then comes arrogance, followed by resting on laurel's (accomplishments) then usurped then struggle to exist.

I wonder if other DC peers, experienced the same issue's?