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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.051805.18508@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1992Dec28.170740.17094@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 05:18:05 GMT
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- mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- >tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
-
- >>In short they plan to exist 100 years from now, and they plan to serve
- >>their customers and to have employees and your stock certificates will
- >>still be worth something.
-
- >Well, if you call that a plan, then most companies and countries have
- >thousand year plans, not hundred year plans. Of course, a plan that
- >simple and with that little detail is so useless that you might as
- >well not have it.
-
- That is simply not the truth. I'll bet that there are few companies that
- plan to be around in one thousand years. Many businesses not only plan to
- sell out but actively prepare for it. One starts a company, goes public
- and sells out.
-
- >A decent plan would identify key markets and technologies that the
- >company should get into. For example, I have a 20 year plan for my
- >part of Oracle and another for my career.
-
- Your personal prowess aside, simply writing a plan is as good as no
- plan at all. I probably don't realize that Oracle is founded on a
- company with a 200 year history in database products or are you simply
- trying to convince us that a 10 year presence should elicit confidence
- in any "plan" that pops up in your boardroom ?
-
- You do not get it... it is clear and I'll stake my money that 100 years
- after Oracle is dead and buried that Matsushita Corp. is still around.
-
- Oracle can't plan the next 100 years any more than a 5 year old can plan
- the next 20 years, that however doesn't mean that nobody can.
-
- tom
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