The following is a rant. As such it will probably disappear later today.
At Los Alamos this story happened thousands of times. It is now happening at LLNL.
In the decision to choose TCP1 or TCP2, 90% of people chose TCP1 because it required less thought and because the 'government will protect me.' Of those who chose TCP2, at least half of them chose it because of the thought ' I do not like my management.'
The cost of making better decisions was about $600 and ten hours of a person's time. The average cost of not spending the time and money was $1,000,000 over ten years.
So the person saved ten hours and $600 and cost themselves $1,000,000. This works out to a cost of $100,000 an hour.
The people who saved the time and money are proud of themselves for being frugal.
Either they get paid a lot more an hour than I do or the answer to the question, "Aren't I smart?"
is
NO.
The amazing thing to me is how hard it is to get people to understand that their decision was not so well thought out. I had to do a lot of work in psychology and sociology to realize that, to the person, the appearance of self reliance is worth more than $100,000 an hour and that it is mostly people with such a world view who choose to stay at weapons labs.
Later.
5 comments:
Lot of words but no substance. maybe when you have something to offer and the people see it, they will come but you only have less than 72 days to get them there. You won't do it this way.
If LANL is an example, 95% will never get there. They will lose the money.
What substance do you want and what is it worth to you to get it?
Just like J.K. Rowlings and Harry Potter, I can't afford to give it away for free.
As to this approach not working, you may be right. No other approach that I have tried, except word of mouth, seems to work very well.
So far, the lost assets by LANL and LLNL employees, money that they have given back to the government, LANS or LLNS totals
$6,000,000,000
I do not seem to have a good idea that will motivate people not to give this money, which they have earned over many years, back to the government.
The common attitude is:
"I would rather give hundreds of thousands to the government than pay someone a few hundred dollars to tell me how to keep the money."
You may be right, at the moment, I am cynical. Almost all of my time is on other projects. One of my colleagues early on has gone back to investing. He felt that LLNL employees would rather burn their money than protect it. He gave up on LANL and LLNL employees.
Do you have suggestions on how to do things better?
My expectation at the moment is that many weapons folk will soon be unemployed and, possibly, unemployable. It seems that they did it to themselves.
Any positive suggestions would be welcome.
As to 72 days, I don't have 72 days, the employees at LLNL do. I have as long as I want because it is not my money that is being lost.
I have room for not more than 100 new clients, possibly not more than 80 out of the 8000. Those 80 will make a lot of money for themselves.
Does this help any?
Part three
I have found that a person who is not willing to send me an email or call me on the phone is not a good client.
Are you willing to become a real person to me? If so, I will tell you more substance and we will see whether the substance is of use. If you think that it is not of use, then there is no charge to you for the phone conversation.
Hi Eric,
Just thought I'd let you know I stopped by to visit.
Pinky
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