Comments on: The CAT Mission Statement

By: bingorabbit

bingorabbit — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:53:38 +0000

I didn’t attend that Tahrir meeting, lel asaf, I wasn’t able to make it that day.

@kamasheto: I read it to the end, almost all of the CAT Founders read it, but I didn’t accept some points in it as Ahmed mentioned, one of them was the foundation system.
.. I agree that the “Sessions” idea is really great, sessions which should teach us how to lead and manage us. More sessions in Soft Skills, like the Map your Mind one I did, which actually teach you your capabilities rather than a technical approach like the mind mapping itself. I believe in such sessions, it really have proven success between all CAT members because they really do like it. Technical approaches are every where, but knowing how to learn is what we need, how to manage and lead, how to organize our thoughts, these kind of sessions is what we actually need in my opinion.

By: Ahmed S. Farghal

Ahmed S. Farghal — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:55:06 +0000

@Kamasheto :Thanks

@Gamal: Yes but not only you, it was related to many guys, but yeah you are cured and almost everybody else…

By: Gamal

Gamal — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:24:27 +0000

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4-Arguing
It seems that we are very professional in arguing, so we don’t have to learn this , we have a very
scary disease called “AIDS” –Arguing Is Destroying Success”. negative arguing is common
between Egyptians so it’s very natural to see it between a small sample of the nation. but the
problem that we can’t live with such a disease, AIDS is leading to death as you know so our talents
and creativity will die if we resumed our very pointless arguing, if you don’t want something say
that you don’t agree about it once and describe your point of view in one statement, and if the rest
if agrees to your point of view then you win, if not then you are a winner too because you are part
of the team who took the right decision. the goal is to take the right decision not to take your
decision. if their decision was found later to be not so right then help finding a solution instead of
reminding them that you said the right decision and they didn’t hear you. it’s better to save the day
instead of shouting.
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That part was tailored for me )
bas ana 5afet mn el AIDS el wa2te .. bythay2le

Thank you

By: kamasheto

kamasheto — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:20:57 +0000

Well, I can imagine why none of the goals you had set your mind to came true — the documentation is VERY long! Did anybody read it to the end? Heh, too bad, I really REALLY agree with the goals. CAT’s activities should have been more in the form of sessions rather than just meetings — perhaps it’s because of the strict (negative) connotation associated with the word “meetings” people are less likely to learn, listen, and produce.

Having read (and not just feel, and listen to) your ideas and visions (well, and how well you structure your goals) I can now tell why hackers excelled, and why you deserved being the the most effective and creative founder in CAT.