I didn't read al that because you missed my point. I was talking about the sign up comment.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:03 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Today's Patraeus: Wow. > > > tBone wrote: > > Normally I'm with you, but without having served yourself, who are > you to > > give that advice man? > > > > I'm not giving Gen Patraeus any advice on how to, for example, station > his troops. He's the expert there. > > But I'm both an American with common sense and a management > professional. I know how to set a strategy, devise tactics, execute a > plan, measure progress against plan, and adjust. > > In short, I know a pile of shit when I see it and it looks like the > Pres Bush's Iraq strategy, which is kind of an insult to the word > "strategy". > > It is for this reason that Patreaus says, "I don't know actually." He > agrees with me. > > He also knows that if he doesn't make the best of the Pentagon's > cock-up, some other moron might cause a lot of needless deaths; so he > does what he needs to to keep things as good as they can be. > ---------------------------------- > Part B. > > There's 3 "white shoe" consulting firms: McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. > They charge mega-big bucks and, in the case of Bain, are so confident > in their advice they'll take stock or ownership in lieu of fees. > > The consultants that give this advice are typically between 25 and 35. > What would a 25 year old who's never put on a conductors hat know > about, say, the railroad business? (This question gets asked ALL the > time.) > > Answer: nothing! Because that consultant doesn't need to know shit > about the railroad business; just needs to be ultra smart and have > management sense. > > You don't often hear about these firms (unless they fuck something up > like McKinsey did - ha ha) because corporations don't want you to know > that they can't run themselves so they need to hire experts. > > But you can bet your ass that if you read about a Fortune 500 > restructuring, or a huge change of strategy, one of the Big 3 was > behind it. > > And can also bet that the 28-year-old that architected, say, Seagate's > global restructuring didn't know shit about making disk drives. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:242464 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
