Yes but from your blog article ""How are monopolies lost? One day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason. But by then the best product people have left, or they're no longer listened to… Who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy… And so the company goes through this tumultuous time, and it either survives or it doesn't… Look at Microsoft — who's running Microsoft? Right, the sales guy. Case closed."
For those asleep in reason and rhetoric classes - that is not an argument. It fails every litmus test for an argument and the fact that Steve Jobs allowed such a hollow and insipid failure of intellect says a bit either about him, his PR flackies, and the journalist to stoned to recognize a subject from a verb. On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:39:51, Kontra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Sorry, the link was dropped in transit earlier.) > > "[There is a] common perception that a "sales guy" can sell > anything, be it cars or jeans or computerware. This view holds that > the domain of business is not determinant, the process is. You learn > the process (at business school) , you're good to go. > As the inadequacy of this approach is exposed we now have another > trend: inject the sales guy with some appreciation of the domain, > surely now he can do even better. Welcome to 'design thinking,' the > finishing school for the Steve Jobs wannabes out there, if you will." > > I explore this tension further at: > > "The new managerial class: cure for design?" > http://counternotions.com/2007/10/13/cure-for-design/ > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21259 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
