<VV> CORSA - Is Bob Helt Wasting His Time?

[corvairs]

Bob is wasting his time no more than the rest of us. He has presented a 
number of good ideas  that should at least be considered. Because some 
people (myself included, but only to a smaller extent) have  asked 
critical questions pertaining to those suggestions, that is viewed by 
some as unfair.  It's unreasonable to  expect anyone's suggestions 
(including mine) to be accepted without question.

This is the root problem with many who get all fired up and join the 
Board in order to "set everything right".

The Board is a collective group of individuals each with their own 
points of view. It is absurd to expect any one of them to be so 
brilliant and so persuasive that they  can get everything that they 
want. Anyone running for the Board should understand that they will only 
be one person (and a junior member at that) and changes will rarely 
happen overnight.

We have seen in the past where someone runs for the board with the wrong 
attitude - which essentially is - "The Board is full of boobs and needs 
to be set straight, and I'm going to do it". Guess how long those new 
board members last? Some, not more than a few months. But one of the 
rules of successful politics is that "You have outlive the SOB's". That 
means that "victory" does NOT belong to the person with a short 
attention span.

To make progress on the Board, every member needs to understand that one 
opinion has no inherent validity over another until the give and take 
process has been followed through. New board members need to understand 
that no one person has all the answers - or all the valid opinions.

Now, back to Bob. He is hardly wasting his time. But if anyone thinks 
that anyones particular suggestion is beyond discussion, scrutiny - and 
yes, even critisism, then they are never going to get it.

Incidentally, Bob Helt, besides being a popular Corvair author, has 
served in the past as a Corsa Board member AND National President.

Lon Wall
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