In the movie Zoolander, Derek Zoolander is shown a model of the "Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good". It is a scale model, so it isn't as big as the real thing would be.
Derek isn't the smartest kid in school, so he gets really angry when he sees it. He smashes it on the floor and yells, "What is this?! A center for ants?!" He indicates that the real one would have to be at least three times as big.
Yes, Derek, it would have to be at least three times as big. And so would your brain.
Speaking of centers and bigger and brains, I can't decide if committees are more useful if the people on them are smart or dumb. Or old or young. Or loud or quiet. Or friends or enemies.
I went to the Vernal Community Association Board of Directors meeting today and there was a clanging, dichotomous cacophony ringing through the Vernal Community Center. We've got a little of everything on our Board of Directors: smart, dumb, old, young, loud, quiet, friends, enemies. We've got them all! Which is very interesting. At times it makes the organization work well. At times, well, it doesn't.
So today, as we discussed whether to make potato salad or just have salt potatoes, as we decided to make sheet cakes instead of cup cakes, as we were educated about the budget and its many cubbyholes of money that we can't use unless we use it for a flagpole or for buying dishes or curtains, yes, as we discussed these things that are, to me, not all that important, I thought, "What is this? A Vernal Community Center for ants?!"
It might be nice. Ants are neater. They clean up crumbs and things. Of course, they eat crumbs. They have more incentive to pick them up...they work so hard.
No wonder they deserve their own center for ants!
But it doesn't answer the question of what kind of members are ideal for a committee. I have the answer. Me, just me-oh-my-o, I have the answer.
There are no ideal members. There are no ideal committees. Stay home.
It's just that easy.
Posted by dotty at April 10, 2005 10:13 PM