short-term fixation, hp and carly
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005a former HP engineer on what carly did wrong.
i don’t agree with everything he says but one thing is definitely true:
To me, this rabid fixation on short-term profits is a bigger threat than outsourcing — it is killing our ability to make astonishing things.
even more so, the fixation on quarterly results (as is the case with almost any company nowadays – at least the ones listed on the stock-exchange) is the wrong way to go – it does not lead to long-term sustainability (i.e. also with an eye to the environment and other things than the pure profit). but the finance markets think it’s what’s necessary and “money is still king”.