08-24-2016, 09:39 AM
(08-24-2016, 06:30 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(08-24-2016, 12:01 AM)BuildingScout Wrote: From what I heard that is how the M3 building got built. Someone asked, on a lark, for blueprints at a time where there was zero chance it would get built. The blueprints sat in a drawer for a couple of years until the recession hit and the government asked for shovel-ready projects. The M3 blueprints were the only ones lying around in the entire university, as such the project didn't even have to compete with others within the university to be placed forward.
I’m not unusually well informed about M3, but if they had blueprints drawn up I doubt that it was on a lark. A Dean of Mathematics (I don’t know when this was so I don’t know who it would have been) or somebody high up in the Dean’s office would most likely have commissioned the blueprints, and the value of their action was proven when the funding came along.
This is why nobody can tell whether executives are doing their job properly. In this case, their money is well-earned, and if most of their decisions were at this level of skill, they were underpaid.
Hmm, as best as I understand "on a lark" means just for fun, with no real purpose, which is how it was done.
I do think this person acted correctly, and showed the value of dreaming beyond what is currently achievable. Because of this he was prepared when the conditions suddenly changed in his favour.