--- In [email protected], merudanda <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Jerry Jarvis at Global Capital in New York after the David Lynch > Foundation benefit concert. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Qu7a2lbkw
My father, a baseball fan, once took me as a youth to some kind of gathering to honor a former baseball hero. I remember my impression of looking around the room clearly -- a bunch of really old, *really* out- of-shape men (including the one onstage) sitting around telling stories of the "good old days" and metaphorically warming their hands at the memory of the fire of their lost youth, lost vigor, and lost dreams. It was very sad. Dress most of those really old, *really* out-of- shape men up in robes and put Burger King crowns on their heads instead of baseball caps, and you've got this video. This next bit is going to sound like a non-sequitur but it really isn't. I once contracted to a Swiss- based company, Ciba-Geigy. BIG medical-pharmaceutical manufacturer. While there I got to look at their cor- porate 'prospectus,' the glossy brochure that they put together each year to show to prospective investors in the company to convince them that the company is *worth* investing in. I had seen prospecti from Amer- ican companies before, and they always spent thousands of dollars on the best photographers they could find to make their CEO and the Board Of Directors look as young and powerful and dynamic as possible. They did this because they knew that no one was going to invest their money in a company run by people with no energy. Ciba-Geigy chose to go for "Swiss reserve" and make the photographs of their CEO and Board Of Directors look like those old-timey photos of dead outlaws propped up in their open coffins outside the saloon they were shot in. You actually could not tell from some of the photos whether these people in charge of the company the brochure was trying to get you to invest in were actually still alive or not. I was not surprised when their stock price went into the toilet soon after and the entire management team was dumped. Think about this video clip showing the 'CEO' and 'Board Of Directors' of the TM movement as a kind of prospectus to whet your interest in the company. Would YOU invest?
