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To: prosperous who wrote (68425)	11/20/2010 1:51:10 PM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217830

I work in a sector that was dominated by engineers or an engineering mindset. Starting early 90's engineers took a back seat and business people took over the sector. They did that optimization to the bottom line and mobile business -the sector I am in- started being devoided of quality. You build. Show the bankers what you have done, how it is picking up. Then get money to build more. No quality. Then they call people to do something they call 'optimization' that means, repairing what was made wrong. And trying to give some quality to their customers The salary arbitration was brutal. Starting with the aftermath of tech bubble that destroyed IT sector, a whole lot of arms and legs were ready for sale at any price. China is the creation of the seeking for the cheap. The Chinese entered the frey at this point. And price is king. Helped by that environment the Chinese sent to the scrap heap: Lucent, Nortel, Siemens and Motorola. next will be the turn for NSN (the joint venture Nokia-Siemens)

To: prosperous who wrote (68425)	11/20/2010 2:11:27 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217830

Blame MBA took people from across the whole range of academic disciplines, modelled under MBA programs and the results are here from all to see... US must look really well onto the virus spread into every fabric of the business that eventually nose dived the country. Here I give a peek at my memoirs I am writing. I was in Benin Republic and they had this CTO who was a former switch guy. The company was sending him to a MBA program. He studied like six weeks there and then brought materials along and after studying the stuff he would return for another six weeks. QUOTE: He got his contract and a booklet. The booklet he had to sign that he had read it. The booklet was code of ethics of our compnay. He was very busy that day. He had to fly to the US that very night. I had arrived three before and I had to take that over while he was absent. He asked: "What is this booklet all about for me to sign a term I've read it? The HR person said: it is the Ethics guide for the company's employees. He asked: "What's ethics?" His trip to the US was to Boston. There at Harvard he was studying for an MBA. And he didn't know -among a lot of things I discovered later on- what Ethics was. UNQUOTE This was 2008 he must have completed and might be there with a MBA under his belt...