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American management is basically a fked up bunch of deaf dumb and blind mtherfking morons..For the past 50 years corporations have become more and more of a bureaucracy that does not foster creativity and suppresses indivdual iniative. It is all for the good of the corporate hierarchy. No body will take responsibility for anything..it is all decision by committee..and as such the decisions made are third rate. The indivduals who rise in that envirnoment are the guys who have learned to take it up the azz and smile, put their noses up the bosses azz and know how to knife the competition when they are not looking. Did I say they also know how to chant the Party line better than anyone else.

Anybody doubt this...ohh my take a look at GM...and the old saying.."what is good for GM is good for America." And if you should perchance try and run out some of the successfull high techs...well guess what at this point in the game most of them are still being run by the guys who founded them and the deadhead mentality hasn't seeped in yet. . A cupla of the big boyz like MSFT and INTEl are either on 2ND gen leadership or nearing it...and one can tell cause the deadhead syndrome is starting to set in on those corps...MSFT stock hasn't risen 10 cents in ten years...

BTW 1st gen leadership is where the creative process and iniative is rewarded..The 2ND gen still has the atributes of the first..but is becoming institutionalized...Each succeeding gen becomes more institutionalized.