Saint Peter II

Yahoo, Microsoft: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall

after reading your analysis it becomes more apparent than ever that bureaucracy is the #1 problem facing this country. ibm downsized and is today more successful than ever mainly because of bureaucracy and there is no need to outline the impact of bureaucracy with respect to our government, but corporations also face this problem. it is the largest least spoken about problem in every area of out culture. john k galbraith wrote a book. "the nature of bureaucracy" which out lines the nature the characteristics of bureaucracy, unfortunately it is 700 - 800 pages long and for today's crowd it may as well have been written in Sanskrit! he maintains bureaucracy has a nature, as in the nature of living organisms. it has predictable behaviors in which it will engage in and those it will avoid. quite a while ago pres carter spoke about being powerless in the face of entrenched bureaucrats and things haven't improved since. microsoft and yahoo are huge bureaucracies and it matters not that they are private corporations the demonstrate the systems of bureaucracy namely the negative reinforcement of initiative that leads to brain drain and lost opportunities and stalled competitive position as bureaucracies resist above all things, change. it's incredible that bureaucracy isn't a primary issue but it may be as geo w said when asked how one could fool all the people all the time, "it's hard to see an elephant if it's sitting on you." undoubtedly the Oily One has something there. see listed web on the role of bureaucrats in the death of mister dollar. saintpeterii.com