InvestorsHub Logo
icon url

JimSmith111

01/02/23 5:41 PM

#555547 RE: Poor Man - #555546

Maybe people just mistake who the audience is, thinking they know what the audience wants, but not actually knowing the audience in the first place. (I’m not saying you don’t know anything, but I can’t say what comes next without offering the above-referenced general statement)

In at least one other major area connected to finance but which is not finance, a group of stakeholders decided a few years back at their quadrennial board meeting that someone who finally, actually said something was more desirable than someone who offered the same empty platitudes that had seemingly been the preferred way of communicating for decades. Even though the individual finally saying something was not speaking from the list of approved topics in the approved manner, it still was appealing to many for that very reason.

But the obvious caveat is that unlike the audience that took a certain variety of action at the quadrennial, I’m probably not the target audience of LP. But who knows what it was, that’s the Dick Tracy decoder ring I didn’t get in my Cracker Jack box so I don’t have the answer certain.
icon url

no2koolaid

01/02/23 8:31 PM

#555605 RE: Poor Man - #555546

PM, sorry to be a bother, but I have to call BS on this...

Never admit to a mistake or say your sorry is something that executives are taught very early in their career.



While I cannot claim all companies are alike, I can assure you that where I came from, if one makes a mistake and does not own up to it, ask for forgiveness, then move from there...you would be gone! GONE!

Relatedly, I listened carefully to the ASM discussion with the ear of a former global executive and took copious notes (hey, I am now a B-School professor). I could write an article about the call for all the positives (and may yet, as I write on Seeking Alpha under a nom de plume).