I like what you have started here. Many of us have not only gone to the annual meetings, talked to our brokers, talked with IR, etc....and have done that for some time. It's too bad you don't have enough time to go back and just skim over the two main INSP boards since the beginning....Some very interesting things appear.
Remember that old history adage: "If you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it."
Many companies, especially peopled by only young people, don't seem to realize that people talk....especially people who have been dismissed from their jobs, for whatever reason.
People talk about money they have lost in the market, and which companies they had been invested in that helped with their portfolio decline, etc.
People talk about the heads of companies, and the Board of Directors....
People who have lost major amounts of money in the market talk. People who have gained major amounts of money in the market talk.
When people go to interviews to their next company, they talk.
Their spouse talks to people, and if the parting of his/her spouse from the company was stressful, they really talk!!
People listen. People evaluate. People sometimes come to the right conclusions. Sometimes they don't.
The internet has made all of us a global community. It would be wise of company officials, at all levels, to recognize, and remember, that. |
