Comment by bryanrasmussen
5 years ago
So, a fictional company, a family before capitalism was conceived, two startups that made it big but before they became big, and pretty much everything else defined by nostalgia for a time during which your fictional company was supposed to have existed.
I agree that the current crop of MBA CEOs are detrimental as a whole.
Perhaps it's just starting off with a fictional company but this really reminds me of someone being asked to list heroes and naming John McClane and the guy who said Nuts to the Nazis at the Battle of the Bulge. Which I got to give props to the second guy of course, but it feels like the viewpoint is limited and not securely tied to reality.
To give another fantastical yet limited viewpoint, the extremely short period of time in human history where
A) large scale production and innovation were required
B) but globalization hadn't arrived so there was an extreme lack of supply of educated and experienced individuals to deliver the objectives of A
Produced a lot of "great" companies in the sense that they offered for both labor and knowledge workers good jobs with upward mobility, and a strong sense of self-identity and orderly progress.
As soon as point A was subsumed by corporatism (patent and copyright wars, debt servicing) and B faded away (so labor lost its seat at the table) companies have become "commoditized" - there's absolutely zero point in establishing or aboding by a corporate identity today when you may have new masters tomorrow.
Nintendo's early days were in the nineteenth century (1890's, if I'm not mistaken). Not quite a startup.
thanks, I didn't know that.
Touché my dude! I'm trying to describe companies that were hardcore about branding and would retain people aggressively under penalty of death for dishonor
Look it may be idealized but what makes us think that we can grow complacent all of a sudden what happened to the cold war and the arms race?
Just because we declared peace and came from a generation of acid heads doesn't mean that we're not operating in a war zone
The most dangerous weapon is intelligence and intelligence operative is another word for knowledge worker