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What the CEO wants you to know (2023)
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dewey,_Cheatem_and_Howe Thank you for this, TIL. Also, I agree with your point, but the title of the book is still accurate, the content of the book is literally what the CEO wants you to know, not what you should know.
Dewey, Cheatum & Howe, was a common trope in The Three Stooges, which I watched a lot of as a kid. :)
Also a common trope on Car Talk, RIP Tom Magliozzi.
Re: What the CEO wants you to know (2023)
#13> Charan makes a rather controversial assertion in the introduction to this section: if your company isn’t growing, then it is dying. The argument goes something like this: in a world that grows every day, a company that is standing still or doing ‘just fine’ is falling behind. A company that is overtaken by a competitor eventually gets boxed in. It loses many of its advantages over time. Charan’s conclusion: growth is imperative to business
Counter proposal: how about we don't destroy our own planet.
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Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
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#15Serving Customers has been the last thing on most companies minds for the past decade or 2. Dewey, Cheatum and Howe is a better example of the current "business" model of most companies. Source: I live in the real world, not the world of fiction painted in this book.
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Re: What the CEO wants you to know (2023)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dewey, Cheatum & Howe, was a common trope in The Three Stooges, which I watched a lot of as a kid. :)
Also a common trope on Car Talk, RIP Tom Magliozzi.
To be fair, the Tappet Brothers were probably around when the stooges were recorded. ;)
I do miss the show though. It was one of the few that could still be labeled, good fun.
Re: What the CEO wants you to know (2023)
#17Serving Customers has been the last thing on most companies minds for the past decade or 2. Dewey, Cheatum and Howe is a better example of the current "business" model of most companies. Source: I live in the real world, not the world of fiction painted in this book.
On the contrary - they are serving customers, the same way I serve dinner for my family. Diced, sliced, with juiceless bits thrown away, and leftovers given to chickens.
If you served dinner like they served customers, you would be apathetically serving cut up pieces of your family to the members that remain, while charging them an exorbitant price, then taking them to court if they dare post a bad review.
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#18> Charan makes a rather controversial assertion in the introduction to this section: if your company isn’t growing, then it is dying. The argument goes something like this: in a world that grows every day, a company that is standing still or doing ‘just fine’ is falling behind. A company that is overtaken by a competitor eventually gets boxed in. It loses many of its advantages over time. Charan’s conclusion: growth…
If I could change one thing about corporate culture, I think it might be this attitude of "success necessarily produces growth". There is nothing wrong with reaching a successful size and staying there.
A good company charges money to solve a problem. The company only needs to be as big as the problem. Anything beyond that is just an exercise for investors. There is nothing wrong with that per se, but it should not be viewed as the only way to be successful.
Having said all that, I don't think Charan's assertion is "controversial" at all. In fact it seems to be the default assumption in virtually every publicly traded company.
Re: What the CEO wants you to know (2023)
#19> Charan makes a rather controversial assertion in the introduction to this section: if your company isn’t growing, then it is dying. The argument goes something like this: in a world that grows every day, a company that is standing still or doing ‘just fine’ is falling behind. A company that is overtaken by a competitor eventually gets boxed in. It loses many of its advantages over time. Charan’s conclusion: growth…
> Counter proposal: how about we don't destroy our own planet.
How about we not pollute HN with low-effort, content-less, anti-intellectual, flamebait knee-jerk reactions? Let's leave those on Reddit, please.
Re: What the CEO wants you to know (2023)
#20> Charan makes a rather controversial assertion in the introduction to this section: if your company isn’t growing, then it is dying. The argument goes something like this: in a world that grows every day, a company that is standing still or doing ‘just fine’ is falling behind. A company that is overtaken by a competitor eventually gets boxed in. It loses many of its advantages over time. Charan’s conclusion: growth…
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