Ask A Question & It Goes Round

Forgot the primary rule of the Committee: no question is answered definitively.

Made that mistake yesterday by sending out a query prior to today's Committee meeting, soliciting answers to certain issues that were, according to last month's Committee Action Items, to be put to bed by today's event.

Barring the other standard rule - If It's Written It Will Not Be Read - in which 50% of the Committee members have yet to acknowledge that they received yesterday's query or are aware of last month's Action Item list, the response from those who did respond is impressive: out of seven answers, not one actually says Yes or No or I Think It Should Be.

2 restate the query - as if by repeating it they have answered.

1 questions the validity of the issue.

1 questions the need for the query: "We'll discuss it at tomorrow's meeting."

2 note that they are "researching the issue."

and

1 says "I agree with my colleagues on the Committee."