beyondfantasy3 113M
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8/2/2010 6:51 pm
What is the cycle of tomorrow ?

So many things, I'd like to create, business models I'd love to build, and programs I'd like to launch. Things which invigorate society, give hope, and push the pathway for uplifting the lives of individuals and communities.
quite a funny thing in life, people who have the vast fortunes to do many of these things, and some seem not to want to do so. Some just pile up wealth, for the sake of wealth, but there are those who put it to a variety of uses. The innovator, who build things, I respectfully appreciate their effort and their vision to do so.

Once upon a time, During the Golden Age of American Growth, people built things, and they created some amazing things across the nation.
They amassed great wealth beyond the average comprehension of what magnitude their wealth entailed. Many used it to do some things, which were excellent contributions. Sadly, some of their offspring, seem to have done less beyond live the opulent lifestyle, and some even resented their life because of the wealth they were born into. Unfortunate for those, who did not see a greater purpose they could engage. some drank themselves into a stupor, some drugged their lives away, never knowing when to cut the drug cycle, and some never learned to kick the habit of drink, and some squander away vast fortunes, and some of the past fortune holding families barely are recognizable names today.

In recent times, the people who looted the banks, and ripped off corporations, and swindled other corporations to merge, only to sell off their asset and pocket the gains, some pay themselves outrageous sums, with other peoples money, and return pennies to the actual investors, and they result to build nothing.

They play for the gamble as if they see the world as a poker game, and they spin in the barter for the sake of power plays, and result still, to build nothing.

The new age of the wealth have no idea of Nation Building, nor restoring value to a nation, they only see personal power, and the elation of who can accumulate the most money and act the most dominant.

Some could learn a great deal from Mr. Warren Buffet of Today's Wealth holders, he studies companies, and buy them to keep them strong, and invest to build, and in doing so, he makes a stable profit, and his invested business continue to grow.

Small and Medium Towns across this nation, which could use wise investments, but those who work in the field of such aims, see only the big mega metros', and find they miss their mark more than they hit their mark, and they shoot up like a rocket, and crash like an expended rocket which has lost its booster.

Unfortunately, many listen to attorneys, whom only see them as a 'billing target", and they soft talk, and bully push them by fake pomp and pump up illusion, and force them to craft deals, that has no way to result but downward spiral. many investment strategist, see a fee, more than they see the pathway to building stability, long term measured growth. they see spike of the moment, followed by the abyss of collapse.

the companies that continue to win, are run by those who have a vested interest in them, not run by some hired CEO who is collecting stock options and massive salary, but those who were built by the vested efforts of their founder. Excellent examples is, Apple, when Steve Jobs was away, they fell off the top shelf of progress, he returned, now they are the leader in innovation in their field, Gates and Ballamer continue to see Microsoft push their development. The Founders of Google, continue to push their field of web based functions. Ford Motors weathered the storm of the 2008 far ahead of the other corporations, because they have not only the family name, but members of the family who still take an active hand in the business.
then look at Hewlett Packard, when they turned themselves over to CEO, they lost market position, when the Founder of Kodak was no more around, they lost their edge, when they should have dominated in the photography industry regardless of the advancement of digital function, and the list goes on.

Some companies do well, because their founder set a process in motion, that kept the latter hired CEO working within a vision framework. Today there are many over hyped individuals sitting in seats they are ill suited to occupy and they result to destroy institution upon institution. Elite illusion of Ivy League expertise, and none of them had any awareness of what happened leading up to 2008, most of them run the companies based on a stock ticker, and listening to puppet boards who are driven by self interest.

product quality today is very sad in the general stature of things, one has to be very selective in choosing purchases today more than ever before. As the numbers game, is more important than generating quality products and building a loyal customer base. many today, are flippers, who rely on the the cycle of new buyers, and they fail to understand how to build loyal customers, whom have a sense of loyalty connected to the quality they receive for their money.

many quality items, are unknown by the general public, and some of the top quality products are made by some companies, who use a different branding, so as not to be discovered, of the high sure quality they produces, to keep it from being equated with their general consumption products.

example, if you want a top quality stereo, go find a true audiophile, they know the system which are not on the everyday list of products people are aware of.

Look at the list of cars for sale, if you want the best that a maker produces, then you need to buy their top vehicle, or you get a generic general consumer product. There was a time, when all Cadillac were a Cadillac, but that changed over years, and some were car with the Cadillac name on it.

The new age CEO are learning again, they can't dupe the people and expect to remain a highly respected producer of such things, if they use the name, they have to again, respect the quality that built the name. and regain the integrity to build it with that in heart and mind.

beyondfantasy3 113M
4740 posts
8/3/2010 4:53 am

Editing is a good thing, I have no qualms about that fact, I write very fast, and am guilty without denial, of not editing. One day, when I have the money, I will probably hire someone to edit my writings.


beyondfantasy3 113M
4740 posts
8/3/2010 3:55 pm

Other blogs I post on, I edit most of the time, here I don't generally go back and do so.

... your point is valid and well considered.


beyondfantasy3 113M
4740 posts
8/4/2010 5:51 pm

Harley has been a local fixture for more than a century. It all started in 1903 when 23-year old William S. Harley and 22-year old Arthur Davidson began selling motorcycles built in a cramped wooden shed.

The company later built motorcycles for the U.S. military in both world wars, which helped introduce the bikes to a global audience that saw them as an American icon.

"They symbolize the classic American values of independence and hard work, freedom, all those values," said Kanti Prasad, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee business school. "Harley-Davidson is a uniquely American phenomenon."


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Another company that should be better run, by descendan- I hope eventually someone wakes up, and began to fire some of these CEO's, and put fixed salary caps on them, and no more stock options that is given to the average employee. If the CEO wants stock, then buy it out of his salary, and if he or she can't make it on a fixed salary, then they should not be in a position to run anything.
107 years, and these new age idiots, who have no vested interest simply drive companies in the ground. and then want the people to work for pennies,then they want to cut those pennies in half. while they still pay themselves 300-400-500- 1000 times, more than the people who actually do the work.

many companies can run without a CEO, all they need is good managers. But these titles are killing company after company.

They continue to prove they are not some wiz bang genius, they are people who make bad decision, push for growth when they are reaching more for ego, than to respect stability.

Also, for certain any company that is traded on the public market, should have salary caps, and no stock packages, let them be paid a fixed income because these are public funds, they siphon off and feed their arrogance and opulence, at the expense of the company.

Take the example of Harley Davidson, it is already a brand and has modeling, there is nothing these goons can do but destroy it. It would run itself without a CEO, all it needs is a good management structure. where people have role responsibility, But these goons, simply priced Harley out of the market place and left that door open for Suzuki and Honda to take over the market, with bikes that have reasonable cost.

A Honda Gold Wing, has more moving parts, than a Honda car, but you don't hear Honda crying the down size blues. Nor do you hear Suzuki crying.

All these goons are showing is that American ego, status and greed in the upper offices are killing company upon company.