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To: Alomex who wrote (3820)	12/10/1997 2:09:00 PM
From: Leo Mitkievicz	Respond to of 9798

Alomex: But you see, the very fact that we are here second guessing management tells you how screwed up Corel is. Heh, heh... LOL. You're telling this to me? They have been really screwed up for longer than I want to think about, going back at least to the inception of the JAVA Suite. Maybe all the way back to the point where decisions were made to grow the company beyond its Draw/graphics niche. That was the time when the structure of management should have been changed. The "one man show" approach works well when a company is a small crapshoot, and can continue for a while as a company grows. Eventually a critical mass is reached. The top guy only has so much time. He can go into a department and fiddle with things a little bit, then move to the next area and fiddle about some more there. Most of the time he has little grasp of what is really going on in the area he is trying to micro-manage. The next step is for him to focus on a single small part of the business while trusting others to take care of the day to day business. But the others he trusted never seem to get it right. So we have the top guy jumping around putting out fires. What this does is kill morale throughout the firm. And anybody that could have helped straighten out the management problem has already moved on, tired of being ignored and overruled. Getting in some new and capable people at the uppermost level of management gives me a little bit of hope for the company. Next, I'd like to see a new top level technical person to manage the programming efforts. Needs to have excellent communications skills. <VBG> There should be more life in WP. They just need to sell it to somebody besides the distributors. Meanwhilst I keep getting very positive feedback about the academic version of WP8 from college kids who will be real buyers of upgrades. Regards, Leo