Posted by Martyn R Jones on March 18, 2001 at 22:20:11:

In Reply to: Xerox posted by Reilly Atkinson on March 18, 2001 at 15:13:19:

Hello,

Xerox will nearly always go south – that’s where the elephant graveyards are – there they will live – hopefully - with Mr Sperry and co.. Xerox almost never knew (I mean knew that they knew) which way was up – even when they were making money. Excellent company though, just like HP and their theoretical application of new management consulting theory.

So Xerox may be as theoretical an application in theories that are classed to become amazingly theoretical business-breakers for a real-company, and not just a simplistic HSB model. Personally, I hate contemporary US management bullshit.

Historically, the reconciliation of business management and knowledge has been as difficult as reconciling physical attraction and real love. Maybe this has to do with the sometime perverse nature of business, but anyways. Are we really living a capitalistic sub-model? Distribution of capital is even worse than we think?

Knowledge and share price may be related, but relations are strange, and stock market value has frequently more to do with perception than reality.

Personally, I believe that Xerox will go down the tubes, but not fall out of the end into the real end. HP will go down the same way because nobody loves a smart combination of “ignorance, vanity and arrogance” together with average-everything, as much as people invent the term “invention” or as much as people want to put a smiley and (relatively cheaply acquired) caring face on it,

Sometimes I’m not sure if companies are being made “fit to prosper”, “fit to survive” or “fit to die”.

One things sure, if spies did as much damage to the USA economy they would be in the slammer. When CEOs do the same damage, or more, on behalf of “you know who” then nothing? Xerox is a memory, a photocopy of something that doesn’t matter, a faded copy of the past – who cares if I believe they once made a difference?

Pity,

Martyn

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