So you're a big business apologist. :) Cliff wrote:
>There are many corporations of much larger than 200 people who can >trace their existence back hundreds of years. Your implication that only >a *fool* or a *megalomaniac* would ever take on the task of leading such >an entity betrays your intense anti-business bias, I would suggest, and has >very little to do with reality. > > I've been a manager in company, have you? I know the reality very well. Company size was an issue of intense discussion. We watched as the company CEO fell out of control when it was taken public and grew to over 400 people. We also saw this happen with other companies. In my case I wound up with 24 people in my group to manage. Now anyone who knows anything about management that it is difficult to manage a group of any more than 8 people. This has been recognized in the military for years. I had to create yet another layer of management with 3-4 managers under me of those 24. But it is also a good idea to keep the number of layers low. In its better days Hewlett-Packard was considered a great place to work because they only had 3 levels of hierarchy. >If big business is so horrible and run by such truly awful people, why do >you drive a car? Why do you fly in airplanes? Why do you use dish-washers >and vacuum cleaners? Why do you shop in grocery stores rather than pluck >your own weeds? Every day you willingly, gladly and completely unthink- >ingly use thousands of products which could only have been produced by >long-lived, stable, efficient companies of vastly more than 200 people. > > > These days a lot of these things are assembled from stuff supplied by smaller companies. It's been that way for some time. I'm not saying that every large business does that but many do. Also when we have smaller companies then they employ more people and employment becomes less of a problem. People enjoy working in smaller companies than large ones as the retain their identity and know more of the people they work with. Then we have the issue of corporations which have become psychopathic and destructive to the society and the environment. It would be far better to limit corporation size, rights and life span as we did in the US prior to the Civil War. Some of this psychopathic behavior is due to companies going public. They begin to work for the investor and not the customer. Often doing so they lose what made them successful in the first place. There is a saying, "before going public you work for dollars. After going public you work for quarters." Have a nice time working at Wal-Mart. ;-) <snip> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
