Companies are Irrelevant.....
>>Did you see the recent news that people are calling for government investigation into AOL's alleged instant messaging monopoly? Sure! Why not? AOL doesn't innovate. We've got nothing to lose. How about going after Cisco, Intel, Sun, and all of the US high tech winners until we can't compete with our foreign counterparts. I really hope that the recent attack on Microsoft, one characterized by such statements, does not end with a legal catastrophe where US companies routinely spend more time and energy on political and legal jockeying/overhead than on research and development.>>
mozek:
INDIVIDUALS are claiming/exercising more of their rights in a growing number of value-oriented areas: privacy, family, access, etc.
These "brand dams" are being arbitraged away as a growing number of INDIVIDUALS pick up their boats, tools, skills, time and trust....walk AROUND the dam and place themselves into the REAL River of Life: embracing more risk, trusting more, ACTING more as they lay claim to realize more of their core values in life with others doing the same.
Companies like Microsoft that DON'T "see" this will find more and more of their talent walk around the dam and move into new waters. Note it's the same "water" just without the restrictions, control, power, politics and branding, etc.
The DOJ case has caught Microsoft frozen like a python in headlights on hot pavement. It's over.
Gates and Balmer would have to concede, open up, forgive and admit to something, anything to break this "lock" which will destroy them.
Peace.
GO!! |
