Comments on: Beware the Jabberwock! http://www.markbaileyco.com/blog/practicemgmt/beware-the-jabberwock/ Turning the profession on its head. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:44:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: An Apology to Ric Payne | Innovative Practice Management http://www.markbaileyco.com/blog/practicemgmt/beware-the-jabberwock/comment-page-1/#comment-277 An Apology to Ric Payne | Innovative Practice Management Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:17:52 +0000 http://www.markbaileyco.com/blog/2008/04/21/beware-the-jabberwock/#comment-277 [...] my recent post, Beware the Jabberwock, I intended to suggest that as practitioners we always question what is the ‘common body of [...] [...] my recent post, Beware the Jabberwock, I intended to suggest that as practitioners we always question what is the ‘common body of [...]

]]> By: Ric Payne http://www.markbaileyco.com/blog/practicemgmt/beware-the-jabberwock/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Ric Payne Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:13:23 +0000 http://www.markbaileyco.com/blog/2008/04/21/beware-the-jabberwock/#comment-276 I was talking with Ron Baker a couple of days ago and he referred me to your blog post. Ron is a personal friend and a man who’s ideas I have done my utmost to encourage and disseminate during the past 10 years—I don’t agree with everything he says but I do respect his intellectual integrity and my thoughts about best practice have been positively influenced by his writing. Frankly, I was quite offended by the way you attacked me (and all consultants who beg to differ with you) and the language you used. I’m not sure what the purpose of your rant (to use your word) was other than to denigrate me personally because you offered no empirical, or even logical support, for the argument that time based billing is unethical other than a few wild generalizations and mis-representations of what I actually wrote. Instead, you seemed content focus your attack me and other consultants who do not share your view of the world whatever that is. I can certainly understand why you related so well to Carroll’s poem. My initial reaction was to treat your post with the contempt it deserves. However, on reflection I would be delighted to have the opportunity to debate this issue with you face to face when I return to my home in Reno later in the year. That is, of course, if you have the courage to do so. You see Mark, I most certainly am not a coward, I’m willing to stand up for my opinions face to face, are you? I was talking with Ron Baker a couple of days ago and he referred me to your blog post. Ron is a personal friend and a man who’s ideas I have done my utmost to encourage and disseminate during the past 10 years—I don’t agree with everything he says but I do respect his intellectual integrity and my thoughts about best practice have been positively influenced by his writing.

Frankly, I was quite offended by the way you attacked me (and all consultants who beg to differ with you) and the language you used. I’m not sure what the purpose of your rant (to use your word) was other than to denigrate me personally because you offered no empirical, or even logical support, for the argument that time based billing is unethical other than a few wild generalizations and mis-representations of what I actually wrote. Instead, you seemed content focus your attack me and other consultants who do not share your view of the world whatever that is. I can certainly understand why you related so well to Carroll’s poem.

My initial reaction was to treat your post with the contempt it deserves. However, on reflection I would be delighted to have the opportunity to debate this issue with you face to face when I return to my home in Reno later in the year. That is, of course, if you have the courage to do so. You see Mark, I most certainly am not a coward, I’m willing to stand up for my opinions face to face, are you?

]]> By: Michelle Golden http://www.markbaileyco.com/blog/practicemgmt/beware-the-jabberwock/comment-page-1/#comment-267 Michelle Golden Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:03:14 +0000 http://www.markbaileyco.com/blog/2008/04/21/beware-the-jabberwock/#comment-267 Fair post, Mark. Not a word out of whack. Do wish you'd acquire Baker's "EMG" clause when consultant bashing, though! :-) (except Michelle Golden) Fair post, Mark. Not a word out of whack. Do wish you’d acquire Baker’s “EMG” clause when consultant bashing, though! :-) (except Michelle Golden)

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