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RE: Convincing others of your value (was: Metrics in its own thread)
Subject:RE: Convincing others of your value (was: Metrics in its own thread) From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:14:41 -0400
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> From: Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare,consultant)
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:55 PM
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> Subject: RE: Convincing others of your value (was: Metrics in
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> ...I know that when we started talking about the needs of our
> space station, a conversation that had to happen in about 5
> minutes, I had what my then boss liked to refer to as "a
> clear vision on the matter,"
> and others ran with it. They kept coming back to me to talk
> about each part (deflector shield, docking bay, inverse
> tachyon chamber, space guns...
>
I've been trying to get our engineers to add an inverse tachyon chamber
to our product, or at least to the coffeemaker in the break room. It
would certainly put the "Q" into "QA." Do you have a technical spec?
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