And a common variant of the first one: "Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good."
Very, very true in so many military situations. It's like, if we need something RIGHT NOW, stop telling me about how it theoretically ought to happen. Stop being a bureaucrat and just act. That's also why we have deadlines. If there were no such thing as a deadline, I would just keep editing something indefnitely, but if someone really needs it by the 6th of December, well, they're going to get in on the 5th...not perfect, but hopefully "good enough."
If the minimum wasn't good enough it wouldn't be the minimum. I learned that taking ICAF by correspondence, since about a third of the questions weren't covered in the material, but if you got the ones correct that were formatted like the Baltimore Catechism response and guessed well on the final third you could reach the minimum.
I either didn't know that or forgot it. You and I were ICAF graduates, granted by Correspondence, before John, your Brother, attended in person. I wonder if that is some kind of record—three Brothers having gotten a sheepskin from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Actually, I was a graduate of the "Blue Book" ICAF correspondence course 15 years before they even let me in the door for the resident course. So, another sheepskin. By the way, your nephew actually has a sheepskin diploma, expensive, but not particularly impressive.
And a common variant of the first one: "Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good."
ReplyDeleteVery, very true in so many military situations. It's like, if we need something RIGHT NOW, stop telling me about how it theoretically ought to happen. Stop being a bureaucrat and just act. That's also why we have deadlines. If there were no such thing as a deadline, I would just keep editing something indefnitely, but if someone really needs it by the 6th of December, well, they're going to get in on the 5th...not perfect, but hopefully "good enough."
If the minimum wasn't good enough it wouldn't be the minimum. I learned that taking ICAF by correspondence, since about a third of the questions weren't covered in the material, but if you got the ones correct that were formatted like the Baltimore Catechism response and guessed well on the final third you could reach the minimum.
ReplyDeleteI either didn't know that or forgot it. You and I were ICAF graduates, granted by Correspondence, before John, your Brother, attended in person. I wonder if that is some kind of record—three Brothers having gotten a sheepskin from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
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Actually, I was a graduate of the "Blue Book" ICAF correspondence course 15 years before they even let me in the door for the resident course. So, another sheepskin. By the way, your nephew actually has a sheepskin diploma, expensive, but not particularly impressive.
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