PDC-18: The Transformational Effect of Awareness: Information and Timing

PDC-18: The Transformational Effect of Awareness: Information and Timing

Making people aware about a project with the right amount of
information at the right time, and in the right sequence has a
transformational effect in the way the common man perceives a project.

To make this point, let's go back to the ICON digests related to the
CHAIROS project. I will specify the dates so that we can understand
the timing aspect.

[Note: Let me make it clear that we are talking about the sequence of
the articles as part of the introduction of the project in this forum
and not about the involvement of the spiritual leaders in the
frontline of it. The second part is a very sensitive topic and my
personal opinion is that their grace must not be misused and our
spiritual leaders have better things to do in their dioceses than to
be involved in frontline of such projects. The consequence of such
involvement is that it overshadows the many other wonderful projects
that these spiritual leaders undertake]

Article 1 [Mar 31, 2006]
The first article on the CHAIROS apartment project was posted. I am
sure the person who posted had nothing to do with the CHAIROS
apartment project and would have posted based on someone else's
request. He was just a messenger, so let's not shoot the messenger :)

Ref: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianOrthodox/message/12565

The one-liner synopsis of the article was that the booking has started
for the CHAIROS apartments.

Articles 2, 3, 4, 5 [Apr 3, 2006]
After the first article was posted, we saw a series of strongly worded
articles criticizing the project.

Ref: Articles 12581, 12582, 12612, 12614

Article 6 [Apr 6, 2006]
Prof. Joseph Alexander goes the extra mile to create the awareness
among people about the project, why such a decision was taken, who
were behind the decisions, how it will be done, why the name of a
spiritual leader is listed on the web site and so on.

Ref: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianOrthodox/message/12615

Article 7 [Apr 8, 2006]
An article from Vinny Easo appears on this subject

Ref: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianOrthodox/message/12640

I want to quote the first sentence of the article by Vinny Easo. Quote
"Initially I was also not happy reading about MGOCSM Chairos project
but after reading the clarifications from Prof: Joseph Alexander I
feel better about this whole idea."

From this article, it is clearly evident that Vinny Easo was feeling
something closer to the authors of Articles 2-5 on Apr 5, 2006.

What has changed between Mar 31, 2006 and Apr 6, 2006?

Nothing has changed on the CHAIROS project. What really had changed
was that people were made more aware of why such a project was needed.
The transformation in the thought process of Vinny Easo was the effect
of the awareness that was created by Prof. Joseph Alexander.

To be continued...

The next two topics:

PDC-19: The transformational effect of Awareness: Rearranging the puzzle
PDC-20: Awareness: Bridging the long distance ends

Thanks,
Rajesh Vargheese
http://www.stgregoriosaustin.org/