Comments on: The Massage Keiretsu? http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/keiretsu Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:56:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Rev http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/keiretsu/comment-page-1#comment-265 The Rev Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:01:02 +0000 http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/?p=91#comment-265 So much to contest, so little time. I like the Japanese word keiretsu and believe that to be the case, that the Amta/NCE/COMTA future Amta-COS replacement, and the MTBOK head steward, Amta, is that Keiretsu. ABMP is just that, a steward. Thanks for a great thought provoking piece. If you can't beat them, join them. ABMP did a good job holding off the Amta 500 hour/NCE for the time being, but as written into the voluntary law, the 250 tier does die in a few years. The Amta string of victories continues. So much to contest, so little time. I like the Japanese word keiretsu and believe that to be the case, that the Amta/NCE/COMTA future Amta-COS replacement, and the MTBOK head steward, Amta, is that Keiretsu. ABMP is just that, a steward. Thanks for a great thought provoking piece. If you can’t beat them, join them.

ABMP did a good job holding off the Amta 500 hour/NCE for the time being, but as written into the voluntary law, the 250 tier does die in a few years. The Amta string of victories continues.

]]> By: BC http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/keiretsu/comment-page-1#comment-264 BC Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:39:09 +0000 http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/?p=91#comment-264 Nice job in California, ABMP. The legislation you sponsored brings you more clients for insurance with virtually no benefit for the therapist. Or did "therapist" get left out of MTBOK? Nice job in California, ABMP. The legislation you sponsored brings you more clients for insurance with virtually no benefit for the therapist. Or did “therapist” get left out of MTBOK?

]]> By: Darci D'Anna http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/keiretsu/comment-page-1#comment-263 Darci D'Anna Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:33:02 +0000 http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/?p=91#comment-263 Thank you Les for your ongoing self-evaluation. Lately I have been witnessing a tendency of well-meaning organizations to form an endless array of committees boards, foundations and fundraising non-profits, in our case, to keep our local library open and functioning. I suspect at sometime soon, this too will prove to cumbersome to be effective. I was taught that effectiveness is the measure of truth. Truth resides in the soul, yes? Thank you for examining your heart and reflecting clearly the heart of our profession. Government seems to have forgotten this basic principle of longevity. Good luck to you in carrying the torch! Darci D'Anna Thank you Les for your ongoing self-evaluation. Lately I have been witnessing a tendency of well-meaning organizations to form an endless array of committees boards, foundations and fundraising non-profits, in our case, to keep our local library open and functioning. I suspect at sometime soon, this too will prove to cumbersome to be effective. I was taught that effectiveness is the measure of truth. Truth resides in the soul, yes? Thank you for examining your heart and reflecting clearly the heart of our profession.

Government seems to have forgotten this basic principle of longevity.

Good luck to you in carrying the torch!
Darci D’Anna

]]> By: Laura Allen http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/keiretsu/comment-page-1#comment-262 Laura Allen Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:24:18 +0000 http://www.abmp.com/les-sweeney-blog/?p=91#comment-262 Kudos to you, Les, and the rest of the staff of ABMP, AMTA, and FSMTB for being willing to play nice, no matter who is in the sandbox. The NCBTMB has a lot of fences to mend, but like you, I want to think they are making a move in the right direction. I think time will tell whether or not the newly formed Alliance is going to be more efficient and responsive to stakeholder needs than the COS, and only time will tell the same about the NCBTMB. Recent press has them painted as turning over a new leaf, and I know many of us hope that's true. There are people currently in office at the NCB that bear no little responsibility in the bad press they have received in recent years, and some that bear no responsibility at all, having been recent additions. But whether they have any responsibility or not, they've inherited the mess, and they will do well to clean it up. They might even go down in massage history as the people who saved the NCBTMB from self-induced implosion. And I'm pretty sure you, and I, would be blogging that from the rooftops. Kudos to you, Les, and the rest of the staff of ABMP, AMTA, and FSMTB for being willing to play nice, no matter who is in the sandbox.

The NCBTMB has a lot of fences to mend, but like you, I want to think they are making a move in the right direction.

I think time will tell whether or not the newly formed Alliance is going to be more efficient and responsive to stakeholder needs than the COS, and only time will tell the same about the NCBTMB. Recent press has them painted as turning over a new leaf, and I know many of us hope that’s true.

There are people currently in office at the NCB that bear no little responsibility in the bad press they have received in recent years, and some that bear no responsibility at all, having been recent additions. But whether they have any responsibility or not, they’ve inherited the mess, and they will do well to clean it up. They might even go down in massage history as the people who saved the NCBTMB from self-induced implosion. And I’m pretty sure you, and I, would be blogging that from the rooftops.

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