Troubling Waste http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/forums/4 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:15:52 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/forums/4 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ SRF World Wide Prayer Circle ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/552/t/SRF-World-Wide-Prayer-Circle.html
Here's the results of a decade-long study that's just... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Secret Wind) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/552 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:15:52 GMT <![CDATA[ Wasted Life ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/553/t/Wasted-Life.html
We wasted our lives by not living them, by closing ourselves off from life itself for some ambiguous bliss promised by dead yogis. Our children grew up and moved away. Our youth fled. We missed it all in meditation. We never lifted a finger to help our communities, to feed the poor, to reach out a hand to anyone but other devotees. We served DEVOTEES. Convocation was nothing but self-service to DEVOTEES. Every single event is for DEVOTEES.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (SayItIsntSo) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/553 Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:21:29 GMT <![CDATA[ where does all the money go? ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/555/t/where-does-all-the-money-go-.html feeds@yuku.com (Paramadas) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/555 Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:00:02 GMT <![CDATA[ SRF is hemorrhaging members, monastics and money ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/556/t/SRF-is-hemorrhaging-members-monastics-and-money.html real world, as SRF like to call it, don't know about the extent of mismanagement and financial waste going on inside SRF. A common thread here is the Peoplesoft fiasco discussed on this board. It has cost SRF upwards of $14 million at this point, all to replace an accounting system costing less than $10,000 a year. Incompetent people trying to fix these things just make them worse.

SRF had originally... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (member108) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/556 Sun, 08 Jun 2003 07:22:34 GMT <![CDATA[ Another relevant analysis ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/557/t/Another-relevant-analysis.html Freedom and Accountability at Work, by Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block.
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It is helpful to realize that every failure is experienced as a small death. We try to value failure as a learning experience, but it is a difficult stretch in most institutions. This may be due to the realization that if we accept failure, we accept the fact that something is going to die. If our... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/557 Fri, 01 Feb 2002 19:05:00 GMT <![CDATA[ Waste? ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/554/t/Waste-.html
To others spending money on accounting systems, no matter the cost, so that they can use these systems to control the organization is worth the money. If this control... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (KS) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/554 Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:33:12 GMT <![CDATA[ Waste Items and Plan of Action ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/558/t/Waste-Items-and-Plan-of-Action.html
1-        Meetings with the monastics to control them and make sure they know that being loyal to SRF (i.e. the management) means not looking or contributing to this board.
2-        The time spent in the review of this board by Br. Terry. (BT)
3-        When BT finds some terrible bit of information that could bring down the organization (on this dinky board with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/558 Sun, 23 Sep 2001 07:58:00 GMT <![CDATA[ VL for Accounting Proj? ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/559/t/VL-for-Accounting-Proj-.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/559 Sun, 09 Sep 2001 22:31:14 GMT <![CDATA[ Set proper priorities ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/551/t/Set-proper-priorities.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/551 Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:23:34 GMT <![CDATA[ Waste? You guys know about peoplesoft? ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/561/t/Waste-You-guys-know-about-peoplesoft-.html
There is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/561 Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:34:18 GMT <![CDATA[ Don't know how to help ]]> http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/560/t/Don-t-know-how-to-help.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/560 Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:31:41 GMT