<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Part of this seems like a very silly discussion on this day and age. If, as in Walter's example, Bernie needs to spend $Y to keep things running he can simply send a text message to the FM. No big deal!<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jun 2, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 2 June 2016 at 10:17, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">I guess I don't really understand what you mean by functional vs divisional in the case of SL. </div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Its about accounting more than anything else; in a divisional org, each division has its own "Profits and Losses" statements, but in a functional org, there is only one.</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">The teams are functional and are the people in the community closest to the issues they are dealing with. </div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Sure!!! :) I'm not saying anything is dysfunctional; the word 'functional' is used in the context of org theory in a very specific 'technical' way. <br></div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">Giving Bernie the ability to run to Microcenter to buy a connector to keep the servers running makes sense. Asking Bernie to speak with Person X to ask permission to do the same makes no sense. Having Bernie submit receipts to Person X to submit to the Conservancy makes sense.</div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div></div></blockquote></span></div><br>I agree with all that, and would add: Having Bernie submit receipts to the Conservancy makes no sense.<br><br>The motion as drafted in the PDF above does not require Bernie to speak with Person X to ask permission to buy things under $Y; it does mean that Person X _could_ disapprove the spending, but I don't think we should worry about that. If push came to shove, Bernie could get SLOB to approve it directly. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This last statement makes no sense to me. Bernie "does not" need to ask permission but his purchase may be "disapproved"? Or is the intention to *add* another person separate from any concrete goals within the organization some unilateral spending privileges? If the latter, what problem are we solving?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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