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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (4860)	7/18/2003 7:32:10 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

I take it you would rather have an assistant phone you from the wreckage and ask what page the parking while on an incline instructions where on. I am for that too. I like people who stick to company policy and follow orders closely. If they start thinking for themselves, it could be dangerous. The ones who phone from the wreckage usually rise to be VP's. Following procedure and policy is an important skill for people who must make others do so. The nobility of Self Sacrifice comes before the ability of ambition in the corporate world and in the military. This make it difficult however for a committee of VP's to make effective practical decisions when confronted with fast moving problems that take practical real world experience and independence of mind and action. There are two paths you can go down here. One is to observe the enemy/competitor and imitate him, hoping that his organization is not as hidebound as yours, or that he is playing monkey see monkey do with you, and his plans will ultimately be more successful than yours. The other is to hire all the people you fired so long ago for being independent and stubborn as consultants. It is galling but it may be the only survival instinct worth having when the going gets rough. EC<:-}