[rollei_list] Re: Economics Are Not Always Practiced (Thank God)
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:05:43 -0400
On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 09:53 PM, David Seifert wrote:
>> By all appearances the economists were not consulted by Alpa during
>> its heyday -- I have never detected any evidence of compromise.
>>
>> Doug
>
> Yes, that may be true but then again what Alpa was doing would
> certainly NOT qualify as "doing business".
>
> I recall being in a meeting a number of years ago where the managers
> of a recently acquired company were being oriented to "the way we do
> things". At several points one of the new inductees kept commenting
> that under the previous management of his company they did things in a
> different manner. Our chairman, finally had enough and replied "Yes,
> those are some of the reasons you are not in business any more." Point
> taken.
OTOH some companies who did things the right way to "stay in business"
are not in business any more either. Many British companies come
readily to mind here.
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