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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Idiotic Japan Bashing
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- References: <1992Dec28.170740.17094@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 11:20:15 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <1992Dec28.170740.17094@oracle.us.oracle.com> mfriedma@uucp writes:
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- > The one for my department identifies one key technology and 3 key
- > markets that we should become leaders in. I have target dates for
- > beginning development of our flagship products for each and target
- > dates for beginning sales in the US/Canada, the rest of the First
- > World, the NICs, and the Third World. I have also identified the
- > market segments which we can expect to sell into most easily and the
- > companies which I think are most likely to compete with us. Despite
- > its vagueness it is the most confidential document I have produced
- > while at Oracle.
-
- Perhaps we should send you to Hong Kong for ten years or so, to learn
- about doing business. There you will learn how patiently to build up
- relationships, such that anytime you come up with a product they will
- buy from you anyway. Because they know you, and how you can be trusted
- to look after them during whatever transactions take place.
-
- > The one for my career identifies three strategic products that I can
- > position myself to build while at Oracle. Each succeeding one is
- > larger than the last. Each will leverage sales of other Oracle
- > products. Two of them will allow Oracle to enter new markets that we
- > are not currently a player in using our existing products as a base,
- > both to build the technology and to provide a receptive audience.
-
- Well, in Hong Kong they will probably also teach you not to be so
- self-interested, to sit their pulling levers. They will want to know
- more about your eldest son, what education he is receiving, and what
- position he will take up with what enterprise when, and the extent to
- which he during his lifetime will act to fulfil your own incompleted
- life's work. That will require a plan from you of 50-60 years, and
- people will be watching how you are settling down to fulfilling it.
-
- > Those are effective long term plans. I think your own description of
- > a 100 year plan shows just how ludicrous a 100 year plan would have to
- > be.
-
- Effective in the short term, perhaps. But who cares about the short
- term when you must work to position your generations to benefit from
- the long term?
-
- How will all your grandchildren, and their children and their children
- after them fare long after you are dead and gone? Doesn't that concern
- you at all? Don't you leave something for them, that they will honour
- you for your longsightedness, generosity and wisdom?
-
- Gil
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