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For these reasons, then, I welcome the opportunity to
pass on some of my thoughts and, hopefully, to offe,r some
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challenges for the future. I'll start with a couple of
observations.
In reading over past conference reports, I find that
your guest speakers can be broadly categorized into two
groups. In the first category are the personnel researchers,
the experts, people like you. They unc'?rstand the behavioral
sciences. They understand the problems and the lead times
involved in achieving effective progress. As a result, they
usually tell an audience like this to ride out the changes
in administrative personnel, to avoid a preoccupation with
the operational demands of today's job, to take the long
range view in the interest of excellence and real progress.
In the second category, ? find people jike myself,
managers, or laymen (in the research vernacular1 trying to
'cope with the day-to-day problems of procuring and managing
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large numbers of people. While WC realize he futility of
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trying to come up with airtight solutions, we tend to ask
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you for formulas and tools (what you might call gimmicks)
that will enable us to tie up our problemsiin nice, neat
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packages. And, of course, we're always in a hurry. We
become a little impatient when your answers are not quick
enough or you try to cualify, perhaps justifiably, the answers
you do provide.
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