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Subject:Drafts - the final word? From:"Andrew T. Brooke" <abrooke -at- pathcom -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:47:23 -0400
This "drafts" debate has been one of the more interesting ones.
Perhaps some of the pain & confusion could have been avoided if the word
"Draft" appeared on EVERY page. Maybe it did. In any case, managers should
not be grabbing documents before writers have release them. I think I saved
quite a bit of grief by not always giving others hard copies, but access to
PDFs only, which they could print out at their leisure.
Just my 2 cents.......
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>::: There must be some personality type (or types) on the Myers-Briggs
>schema that simply cannot grasp, cannot appreciate that some things
>(documents, songs, rough cuts of films) come in rough, provisional form,
>and are simply preliminary expressions of initial stream-of-consciousness
>creativity. These people, with these personality types, should be banned
>from all management positions. Or,
>at the very least, they should be barred by law from looking at anything
>until it's in at least its third draft.
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