Comment Re:Ahh, the litany of failure (Score 1) 327
Conceiving, designing, implementing and marketing a product requires more than one person or one group of people to be sucessful. You have to work with what you have. Fortunately Microsoft suffers much less from the bureacracy that other larger companies have. They are also willing to make a strategic investment and allow the group to operate on its own. Ultimate TV had a flawed business plan and needed to play with the only willing player satellite. Larry's group is able to deliver. Also, I believe that the fact that Bill Adamec used to work for IBM in Silicon sales helped tremendously. The fact that people at IBM know him is crucial. Most partnerships with other companies fail. I left a company that was folded into BMI and they faced extortion from their own internal supplier. The group would not add additional buffers w/ different gain values to the library with out recieving money for an enhancement to the cell library. This was for a customer internal to BMI! At Gorintella 4th level managers would demand the third level management to kill 32 bit versions of a program encumbered with both 32 and 64 bit products. They did this more than once and then they forced out the 3rd and 2nd level management that they had forced to do things like this. They blamed the lower management for their big mistakes. This 3rd level manager had already learned his lesson about telling management that he didn't want to run the company into the brick wall. He had lost his position at a former company for doing that. He knew the reality. That he had to do the best he could with decisions that had been made by higher level management or leave the company. They would not accept no.
I agree that people who attempt to fix problems during their trips around the block that result in failure many times are people who will be successful. You have to work at a few companies in the industry to understand that. I tried to explain some of these things to people who had only been at
a big company their entire career and they refused to even contemplaint their weaknesses. The worst are the managers who never rock the boat and just sweep things under the carpet.
I agree that people who attempt to fix problems during their trips around the block that result in failure many times are people who will be successful. You have to work at a few companies in the industry to understand that. I tried to explain some of these things to people who had only been at
a big company their entire career and they refused to even contemplaint their weaknesses. The worst are the managers who never rock the boat and just sweep things under the carpet.
