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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. Bah by CaptainSuperBoy · · Score: 1, Redundant
    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.

    That isn't a sentence. I for one think Slashdot should post only sentences, particularly on the front page.

  2. Re:Translation, please? by tongue · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry, I've got karma to burn... :)

    still, while the sentence construction is indeed clumsy enough to read like an incomplete sentence, I still maintain that its merely a case of an incomplete prepositional phrase.