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To: Dana Adams who wrote (131154)	3/29/2001 2:31:47 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 186894

Let the games begin. The race to 20 and below is on!! Message 15475200 $10/share = ~2X sales, and it's a nice, round figure, easy to remember. -g- Tom

To: Dana Adams who wrote (131154)	3/29/2001 4:17:16 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

OT OT Dana, RE: "Women are certainly emotionally driven." I wouldn't be so biased Dana in your comment. I personally know a very nice man, quite dear to me, that can be quite passionately, emotionally driven at times. Perhaps you don't have such an experience? RE: "She...lashed out." I would interpret my comment (please take your biases somewhere else) as a request to take it (specifically, his previously demonstrated rude behavior when stating his biases) elsewhere. RE: "Women lack power because they are unable to take it. Real power is not something that is given. It surely is taken!" Real power is indeed taken, like the time I warned an executive that if he continues to discuss corporate strategy in the men's bathroom, he'll find me entering the "meeting room." Real power is taken, like the time almost a decade ago, when an owner of a startup (that our large company was considering buying) told one of our executives he wanted to continue their biz meeting at a "strip bar", the owner unfortunately didn't realize I was the person assigned to assist in assessing a potential buy decision. There was no "strip bar" meeting by them, nor anyone. Power is indeed good. However, power that is imbalanced isn't good and imbalances created from years ago take time to work out of a system that was initially biased. Even today's large and reputable companies can struggle with this battle as they try to educate their employees to make the culture more advanced, like the time one of the industry's highest-level female hardware executives had to explain to a room full of men why they could not continue to make attacking sexist comments to their women colleagues. One man was deeply concerned, because he didn't know how to handle his stress level without dumping it on his female colleagues. He sincerely and honestly asked the executive if he could continue to make sexist comments in order to help his stress level. Some individuals actually asked if they could step outside to the company's balcony to make disparaging sexist comments about their women colleagues. They said their stress level was so high that they needed to let it out and they found making sexist comments was a good way to let it out as it got them to "laugh." The executive suggested they find other ways to laugh but they couldn't make sexist comments on company property. While awareness and honesty are the first steps to fixing such things, the executive (and with the company's complete support) decided not to grow the company with that group (since it needed HR training), but instead selected a different group to reward with projects. Power is indeed good. And it's great to hear stories about female or male executives that are exercising their executive power to clean such things up. Amy J