[Mick]

Necessity is the mother of invention. And I wonder, in this war of choice for Russia, whether there is much incentive To challenge Putin and do something different.  If you are a mod-level commander in Donetsk, your goals are basically a) to survive and b) not to piss off your superior (and I recognize that these two may be in conflict).  So, I would imagine a lot of CYAing and a lot of trying not to upset the Apple cart, probably trying to avoid engagement, and very little innovation.

BC

When I was younger, I had accumulated a lot of knowledge on CRM systems, and my employer at the time (Arthur Andersen) was trying -- very unsuccessfully -- to build its own. The boss of the project leader (and AA board member) asked for my candid opinion on their proprietary CRM tool, and I made the enormous political mistake of thinking that he actually wanted my candid opinion. I wrote a 17-bullet point memo detailing the shortcomings of the AA solution compared with off-the-shelf, commercially available CRM programs.

I still remember the terse e-mail he sent me two weeks later, which began: "I am sorry that you decided to put your career in jeopardy by criticizing..."

Ah, good times at Enron's auditing firm...

[Mick]

Necessity is the mother of invention. And I wonder, in this war of choice for Russia, whether there is much incentive To challenge Putin and do something different.  If you are a mod-level commander in Donetsk, your goals are basically a) to survive and b) not to piss off your superior (and I recognize that these two may be in conflict).  So, I would imagine a lot of CYAing and a lot of trying not to upset the Apple cart, probably trying to avoid engagement, and very little innovation.

BC

When I was younger, I had accumulated a lot of knowledge on CRM systems, and my employer at the time (Arthur Andersen) was trying -- very unsuccessfully -- to build its own. The boss of the project leader (and AA board member) asked for my candid opinion on their proprietary CRM tool, and I made the enormous political mistake of thinking that he actually wanted my candid opinion. I wrote a 17-bullet point memo detailing the shortcomings of the AA solution compared with off-the-shelf, commercially available CRM programs.

I still remember the terse e-mail he sent me two weeks later, which began: "I am sorry that you decided to put your career in jeopardy by criticizing..."

Ah, good times at Enron's auditing firm...