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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3437)	9/17/1998 10:22:00 PM
From: j_b	Respond to of 67261

re: honest leaders I've been in the business world a long time, and I agree with your assessment of the leadership at large companies. Smaller companies, on the other hand, are often run by idealistic, honest people. Somewhere along the line, the power goes to their heads, and they start to believe they are entitled to mistreat people and take advantage of the system. They also start to believe they really are infallible, and any failure must be someone else cheating. IMHO, Microsoft, Dell and the other technology companies would be much better off and even more competitive worldwide if their leadership was more honest. As a shareholder, I would rather have Ellison admit he screwed up, had learned from his mistake, and was taking concrete steps to remedy the situation. That would give me far more confidence than a claim that Gates had cheated.