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Managing Your Company To Death

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pre-meeting-meeting-about-meeting dept.

puppetman writes "This weeks I, Cringely is a frightening monologue on the plight of over-managed companies: VC's and professional managers who are looking to make a quick buck, even if it consigns the company to the rubbish heap. He praises companies like Oracle and Sun because the founder still runs the company, and is in touch with the core of the buisiness. He also makes an interesting aside about the founders of the Canadian company, Research in Motion (makers of the Blackberry) and their personal contribution of $120 million for research into particle physics, to illustrate what happens when technical expertise and business success can lead to."

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  1. It has to be asked. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's better?

    (a) Managing a company to Death

    or

    (b) Sex with a mare?

  2. Core Business? by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He praises companies like Oracle and Sun because the founder still runs the company, and is in touch with the core of the buisiness.
    What would this be? Screwing california out of it's hard earned money?

    --
    Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
  3. Re:Death imminent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thus proving once again that the French are ignorant bastards!! ==Wolfrider
    .
    Wolfrider is not logged in because of moderator points that tend to craaaash Win98/Opera when multiple /. windoze are opened... I could reboot to Linux and use Opera there, but then again I'm downloading Libranet Debian at the moment! :)
    .

  4. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    W00t! First Post!! Who's your daddy?

  5. Re:Founders not necessarily necessary by DuckDodgers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have we met?

  6. Re:Ummmmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rock on, brother, rock on.
    You never need a gun unless you REALLY NEED A GUN.

  7. Re:Hang on a minute! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please Mr Moderator mod this up as "Insightful"!