Melissa Marr Quotes
As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.
Marr, Melissa. Ink Exchange. HarperTeen, 2008.
Referring to the many mistakes made in the implementation and planning of the Iraq War.
See {630835} for a similar statement.
He was very aware that there were three factors inhibiting staff members from speaking up to criticize a plan: Junior officers a reluctant to take a position that is in opposition to their superiors; many attendees see themselves as institutional representatives of their organization or sub organization and are reluctant to take a position different from that which was taken by the organization; after months of planning and the vast majority of other staff in support of a plan, most people are intimidated from raising a dissident point of view especially if they are the only one in the group with that view. Presidents, agency heads, commanders, and other leaders all face this problem. However many do not want any dissident opinions at the late stages of a planning process. The better leaders however do want those outlier opinions especially at the later stages. Eisenhower usually went out of his way to emphasize his desire for honest criticism and chided others who did not like criticism—see {637081} ,
Melissa Marr is an American author of young adult/urban fantasy novels.
