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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>We are in a period of rapid evolution.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The discipline we pursue (Precision Model Aerobatics) is
enjoying a tremendous technical growth rate with new equipment and continuing
refinement of the old.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The organization is both benefiting and cursed by the
close communications that the Internet provides. Everything has changed and it
is a safe bet that thins are going to change more.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ther is a lot inertia involved in dealing with those
changes. We are not going to simply sweep aside the legacy of things that have
gone into history. Nor can we simply allow the "way we have always done it" to
determine our future. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The nature of the "human condition" has not changed a lot
though. Organizations either thrive on adversarial competition or they are
destroyed by it.It is important that we develop these adversarial circumstances
to assure that we have adequate leadership for the future and a growing root
system.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cultivating the adversarial system is good, but it is
essential that we recognize the conflict is in the family and all is lost if we
go to war with each other. </FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>John Ferrell <BR>6241 Phillippi Rd<BR>Julian NC 27283<BR>Phone:
(336)685-9606 <BR>Dixie Competition Products<BR>NSRCA 479 AMA 4190
W8CCW<BR>"My Competition is Not My Enemy"</DIV>
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