On 4/17/04 2:58 PM Rich Siegel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. >On 4/17/04 at 1:22 PM, berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is probably no big surprise to you but sometimes business >> decisions are not made for rational reasons. > >Show me an irrational business decision made by a company that survived >the decision, and I'll show you an urban legend.
Hi Rich- I don't know about the computer industry but I do know there are many corporations out there who have and are surviving from irrational decisions. One first of all must know what is ration and irrational or what is reality and unrealistic. Is it really rational to burn fossil fuels when we know their harmful effects? Or to created and consume chemicals that pollute the air and water? Is it rational to produce mind alterning drugs and call them illegal but also to create a water soluble drug that effects every cell in the body and call it legal, i.e. alcohol? I could go on but I thinki we could make a very strong case for the fact that many successful companies in terms of amassing profits at all costs are still around and will be for a long time until the public start seeing how their pocket books are being affected. But the one that really gets me is our so called system of Justice. We think that by punishing people it will transform them into useful citizens and yet we keep doing it, the prisons are overcrowded and we still don't provide prevention education that works although such things do exist. Why I know of an education system that produced post graduates at age 15 but there is no way to get it installed in our education system because of the money and politics controlling things. Yes indeed, corporations do make irrational decisions and still survive. I know because I taught management and staff training in some of them. John Steinbeck said- "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty understanding and feeling are teh concomitants of failure inour system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." regards, doug ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
