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[quote=Bill Daniels]OK, everybody gets a vote - mine is for Denver. Several active clubs,
hundreds of local glider pilots, great soaring year 'round, located near the geographic center of the USA and with good airline connections. Bill Daniels I also vote for Colorado - Preferebly North of Denver. Sign me up as the first volunteer I can give approximately 2 weeks per month. John DG-300 "XLT" |
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I want my SSA
bumper wrote: Minden! Minden! Oh, Pick Minden!!! Minden. Phoenix. Tehachapi. Prudhoe Bay. McMurdo Station. ANYWHERE BUT CHICAGO! Don't let anyone ever reward Chicago with anything aviation related, after that fiasco with that goomba daley and Meigs Field. |
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I want my SSA
Being located in Hobbs, NM is a major contributor to the general
inefficiencies of SSA let alone the serious mistakes. I would suggest the previous posts might be missing the point. It's irrelevant that SSA HQ be located in a good soaring location; and it's slightly less relevant that it's in a central location. What is vitally important is that it is located in an area where it can draw on professional association talent. That means the general Washington, DC area or surrounding locals. Washington is the center of the universe for associations. Having 30 highly qualified applicants for each position, plus easy availability to critical association resources, would put SSA miles ahead. A move into the concentrated heart of the association world would be the best thing the members could ever demand. Bob |
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I want my SSA
Why do we need a corporate headquarters at all? Why not conduct all
business over the Internet and let the (few) employees needed to run the business work from home? Most of the business functions of the organization can be subcontracted out at far less cost than we are incurring now. Everything from a receptionist to payroll to order fullfillment. Conference rooms are readily available at all hotels at a reasonable cost. Meet in the city for the people attending. Or better yet, have a Net meeting and avoid all of the travel costs. Plus the sale of the building could go a long way toward getting the SSA out of debt. Tom Seim Richland, WA |
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I want my SSA
Tom, you make a eloquent argument against the "edifice complex" that has
plagued so many organizations. The organization is not the building nor is the building the organization. Broadband internet makes communication and collaborative tasks vastly better and cheaper that anything possible when the Hobbs site was selected. I use internet based VoIP and videoconferencing and prefer it to physical travel. However, allow me to become the "devils advocate" for a moment. There are many outsiders who will first ask, "who are you guys and what do you do?" A headquarters in a real building on a soaring site where one could point out the window to answer that question would be a real asset. Many of these visitors might be people who could help us if the headquarters were located near places they pass through anyway. I don't know exactly where that magical building site is but I note that the AOPA is in Frederick, MD on an GA airport near Washington, DC and the EAA is located on their "Aviation Center" campus in Oshkosh, WI. Putting the SSA on a year-'round world class soaring site near some international crossroads might have some advantages. Bill Daniels wrote in message oups.com... Why do we need a corporate headquarters at all? Why not conduct all business over the Internet and let the (few) employees needed to run the business work from home? Most of the business functions of the organization can be subcontracted out at far less cost than we are incurring now. Everything from a receptionist to payroll to order fullfillment. Conference rooms are readily available at all hotels at a reasonable cost. Meet in the city for the people attending. Or better yet, have a Net meeting and avoid all of the travel costs. Plus the sale of the building could go a long way toward getting the SSA out of debt. Tom Seim Richland, WA |
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I want my SSA
You're headquarters could easily be a rent-an-office in Washington DC that
shares a conference room and receptionist with 20 other associations. Mike Schumann "Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message . .. Tom, you make a eloquent argument against the "edifice complex" that has plagued so many organizations. The organization is not the building nor is the building the organization. Broadband internet makes communication and collaborative tasks vastly better and cheaper that anything possible when the Hobbs site was selected. I use internet based VoIP and videoconferencing and prefer it to physical travel. However, allow me to become the "devils advocate" for a moment. There are many outsiders who will first ask, "who are you guys and what do you do?" A headquarters in a real building on a soaring site where one could point out the window to answer that question would be a real asset. Many of these visitors might be people who could help us if the headquarters were located near places they pass through anyway. I don't know exactly where that magical building site is but I note that the AOPA is in Frederick, MD on an GA airport near Washington, DC and the EAA is located on their "Aviation Center" campus in Oshkosh, WI. Putting the SSA on a year-'round world class soaring site near some international crossroads might have some advantages. Bill Daniels wrote in message oups.com... Why do we need a corporate headquarters at all? Why not conduct all business over the Internet and let the (few) employees needed to run the business work from home? Most of the business functions of the organization can be subcontracted out at far less cost than we are incurring now. Everything from a receptionist to payroll to order fullfillment. Conference rooms are readily available at all hotels at a reasonable cost. Meet in the city for the people attending. Or better yet, have a Net meeting and avoid all of the travel costs. Plus the sale of the building could go a long way toward getting the SSA out of debt. Tom Seim Richland, WA |
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I want my SSA
Bill Daniels wrote: Tom, you make a eloquent argument against the "edifice complex" that has plagued so many organizations. The organization is not the building nor is the building the organization. Broadband internet makes communication and collaborative tasks vastly better and cheaper that anything possible when the Hobbs site was selected. I use internet based VoIP and videoconferencing and prefer it to physical travel. However, allow me to become the "devils advocate" for a moment. There are many outsiders who will first ask, "who are you guys and what do you do?" A headquarters in a real building on a soaring site where one could point out the window to answer that question would be a real asset. Many of these visitors might be people who could help us if the headquarters were located near places they pass through anyway. I don't know exactly where that magical building site is but I note that the AOPA is in Frederick, MD on an GA airport near Washington, DC and the EAA is located on their "Aviation Center" campus in Oshkosh, WI. Putting the SSA on a year-'round world class soaring site near some international crossroads might have some advantages. Bill Daniels Yeah, that old "nesting instinct" rears its ugly head, pushing us into making irrational decisions. In reality, our public persona is really our web site. Have you ever been to the SSA headquarters? I haven't and don't intend to in the foreseeable future. The SSA is in dire circumstances requiring an equally dire response. I admit that I am thinking "outside of the box" here, but it is definitely worthy of consideration. Tom |
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I want my SSA
This whole discussion is amusing given that the SSA has proven that it
can't even perform the most basic functions required of an organization. There was no oversight, no accountability and hundreds of thousands of dollars are gone. What amazes me is how many people here seem to see this mess as just a normal bump in the road. Before any discussion of relocating can take place, I think that it would be wise to first see if there will be any organization left to relocate. Ian Cant wrote: Without wishing to throw out the fresh thought, it might be well-advised to be very cautious before abandoning the physical headquarters concept. A main contributor to the present debacle would appear to be that nobody on the Board, and very few ordinary members, was ever in the office to see what happened day to day. Cat's away, mice play. An internet-distributed office might be an even harder situation to supervize. Has anyone had any first-hand experience at actually running such a 'virtual' headquarters ? How did it work out in practice ? What sort of safeguards were used to ensure productivity and financial integrity were maintained ? My own limited experience with teleconferencing suggested that it was lousy for management purposes, but very effective for engineering. Things that can be reduced to hard numbers can be disseminated easily; anything that has human factors or personalities involved tends not to travel well through the ether. Or perhaps I'm just a reactionary old fuddy-duddy on this. Ian At 00:54 13 September 2006, wrote: Bill Daniels wrote: Tom, you make a eloquent argument against the 'edifice complex' that has plagued so many organizations. The organization is not the building nor is the building the organization. Broadband internet makes communication and collaborative tasks vastly better and cheaper that anything possible when the Hobbs site was selected. I use internet based VoIP and videoconferencing and prefer it to physical travel. However, allow me to become the 'devils advocate' for a moment. There are many outsiders who will first ask, 'who are you guys and what do you do?' A headquarters in a real building on a soaring site where one could point out the window to answer that question would be a real asset. Many of these visitors might be people who could help us if the headquarters were located near places they pass through anyway. I don't know exactly where that magical building site is but I note that the AOPA is in Frederick, MD on an GA airport near Washington, DC and the EAA is located on their 'Aviation Center' campus in Oshkosh, WI. Putting the SSA on a year-'round world class soaring site near some international crossroads might have some advantages. Bill Daniels Yeah, that old 'nesting instinct' rears its ugly head, pushing us into making irrational decisions. In reality, our public persona is really our web site. Have you ever been to the SSA headquarters? I haven't and don't intend to in the foreseeable future. The SSA is in dire circumstances requiring an equally dire response. I admit that I am thinking 'outside of the box' here, but it is definitely worthy of consideration. Tom |
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Ian Cant wrote:
Things that can be reduced to hard numbers can be disseminated easily; anything that has human factors or personalities involved tends not to travel well through the ether. Or perhaps I'm just a reactionary old fuddy-duddy on this. You're spot-on. We demonstrate that truth here every day. Jack |
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