Failing that, special treatment for alternatives is probably the least bad option though such measures need to be crafted in ways that favour neither incumbents nor particular ways of doing things, and need to be withdrawn when they are no longer necessary.The poor world turns greener tooThat, at least, is the view from the rich world.
We allies created a general commander-in-chief, our General Eisenhower, but the British forces were run by the British, with their own weapons, their own supply system, their own particular ways of doing things.
[They are] maintained and reproduced in order to cultivate a certain set of social relations and a particular way of doing things.
After five years driving a livery cab on weekend nights through some of the toughest neighborhoods of upper Manhattan and the Bronx, Mr. Miranda, 34, has a particular way of doing things, for his sanity and survival.
"But we said at the time that if we can get the same goals at the end of the day -- change the status quo, get some professional government in place, provide necessary services to the people -- then we would not be wedded to one particular way of doing things".
Adds Thomas Dearlove, manager for composite structures at General Motors: "You have an entire industry geared for a particular way of doing things".
One can choose standard software stacks and an autoscale option, and the Jelastic platform does it all automatically, without pushing developers into any particular way of doing things.
My employees, for example, often come to me to complain about a particular way of doing things, and every time, I'll ask, "Can you document a few examples?" After all, that's the only way I can determine if a change can be made and present it to the higher-ups if so.
There's a particular way of doing things, there's a particular community, that's going to be representative of that, and it sucks but that's the way it is.
I think that there's a certain kind of person we're looking for, and that it's important for me to know who's coming into the business, which I started out of my passion for the industry and a particular way of doing things.
Some participants also mentioned the importance of being treated as an individual by professionals and services: "I think you need to feel that whoever it is trying to help you is just responding to you as an individual and not through some pair of glasses that they've got on that isn't about a particular way of doing things".
