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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (3450)	7/8/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: Curbstone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Mike, (Buckley) you are the acknowledged Master of Gorillaspeak, but isn't this carrying it too far? It's tough enough that we ask threadmates to use the terms Gorilla/King/Prince in accordance with GG definitions, but asking guest presenters to do the chasm/bowling alley/tornado stuff may doom us to a xenophobic existance. Uncle Frank, I'd like to respectfully disagree here. The gorilla/king/prince analogy is a bit of an over simplification of the underlying issues and leads to misunderstanding, especially by those who either have not read the book, or simply have not yet grasped the underpinnings of those designations. Grappling with the chasm/bowling alley/tornado issues here would serve several important purposes by forcing us to go a little deeper. The chasm/bowling alley/tornado issues are what help to define whether or not a candidate qualifies as an emerging gorilla. It would help us to weed out those candidates who are proffered simply because they are big, have a patent on an ingenious product, or have simply become the darling of some Jane Goodall of the investment world. I'm up for dealing with this stuff even if it serves no other purpose than lowering the sheer volume of posts to this thread, even though I feel we would all benefit in many other ways. Aloha, Mike