How Things Get Done

Been there, done that. Worked to get something going for two years
till I sat down and chatted between a couple of meetings with a two-
star. He reached over a confernce room table, grabbed the phone, made
a call, in the middle he asked me how much staff I would need, rank
and job types. Told him four folks besides me and their skill sets.
He grunted, chatted on the phone a few more minutes (as everyone held
off starting the meeting), hung up, leaned back to me, said "its
done." First body showed up by the end of the week. We worked for 6
months then disbanded. We saved the US taxpayer 17 million dollars
the first year with that program.
Just gotta get to the right folks.
Very cool. You going to help with the program?
Frank Reid

On Sep 12, 9:12*am, Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:


Just gotta get to the right folks.

Amen.

Very cool. *You going to help with the program?
Frank Reid

Probably not much in any direct way. That would be trespassing on
grad-student turf. It would probably also taint results.

However, as you probably noticed when you were there, the chestnuts
are not isolated. They are interspersed among all the other trees.
We will go on as before with all of those, and this will necessarily
have some effect on the chestnuts. This is, of course, understood by
the researchers; it comes with the turf.

giles