A Facebook Comment to Brent

In the Facebook conversation of my Brent Sleasman post, I made this observation to Brent:

"In the CGGC, in the last decade or so, what we say in a moment has come to mean everything and what we do over a period of time has come to mean very little."

That comment was intended to accomplish two ends:

First, to explain why I'm convinced that Brent's call for the people of the CGGC to engage in important conversations will come to nothing.

Brent was deputized to announce this vision but, for many years now, we've cast numerous worthwhile, even exciting, visions without a scintilla of an effort to live out that vision.

Unless things are about to change radically, there will be no attempt from the people who produce the eNews to provide practical and useful ways for CGGC people to make this really nice idea a reality.

Second, the comment serves as a definition of my To Talk is to Walk-ism characteristic of the CGGC brand.

We value talk. We are fast talkers.

But, the absolute truth is that what we do has come to mean very little and, if anything, to mean less and less as time goes on.

We won't do what Brent suggests not because Brent has failed in any way. We won't do it because we don't DO anything.

For us, sometime in the last decade, or so, talk became walk.