RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech

This from a guy who drove a ROTARY-engined car.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, David [mailto:dshaw@spartan.com]
Sent: March 20, 2000 1:49 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech


You wanna know the scary part?  The longer you know him, the more sense he
makes. <grin>

I've known him long enough that I sometimes forget he's crazy (never for
very
long, though ;).  And he's certainly correct this time!

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
> 
> Somebody call the Airforce and the the Project Blue Book team 
> out here,
> the strangest thing has just happened! I agree with Don!
> 
> "Schenck, Don" wrote:
> > 
> > Read or listen to Tom Peters.
> > 
> > Truly GREAT stuff is done by wacky and passionate people.
> > 
> > ANYTHING great is done by "crazy" people. From Martin 
> Luther to Martin
> > Luther King to Steve Jobs to Lance Armstrong.
> > 
> > That makes ME feel great, because I'm crazy and don't know 
> my limitations
> > (well ... besides a 300-lb bench press).
> > 
> > Evangelists need to RUN the AS/400 team, from design to 
> construction to
> > marketing to support. Anything less will result in ... well 
> ... "Magic Box"
> > and "I AM"-type stuff.
> > 
> > How about THIS:
> > 
> > A parody of the famous "1984" ad:
> > 
> > People are sitting in a huge room, but instead of just 
> watching a huge
> > screen, they all have screens in front of them and their 
> all surfing the
> > web.
> > 
> > The big screen shows an AS/400, sitting there running, with 
> a bunch of URL's
> > flying by to symbolize the web activity.
> > 
> > A hacker wearing Microsoft's colors comes running into the 
> room and tosses a
> > big hammer toward the screen (like the 1984 ad).
> > 
> > It bounces off!
> > 
> > VOICEOVER: AS/400; the most reliable web server on the planet.
> > 
> > -- Don
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colin Williams [mailto:colin.williams@technocrats.co.uk]
> > Sent: March 20, 2000 11:04 AM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech
> > 
> > Does it come down to the fact that many of companies(the Dell's,
> > Microsofts, Sun's and HP's)
> > are run by entrepeneurs or techies, who are emotionallly attached to
> > their products
> > but IBM is run by executives, who are not?(Not that theres anything
> > wrong with that!)
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Schenck, Don [mailto:Don.Schenck@WL.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 2:14 PM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech
> > 
> > Chuck --
> > 
> > <<
> > I was illustrating a point that I know first-hand the 
> effect of sending
> > hundreds of letters to IBM. It has no effect. So why even 
> suggest it?
> > >>
> > 
> > I remember that. What a MAJOR disappointment. It was then 
> that I took up
> > Visual Basic; I saw the handwriting on the wall (and it was
> > REALLY hard to
> > read because it was all CAPITAL letters and each word was only
> > SIXCHR's long
> > and THEYALLRANTOGETHER <grin>).
> > 
> > <<
> > And I'll say this: action is almost worthless in the AS/400
> > market. I will
> > wager money that despite your efforts, despite Bob Tipton's very
> > provocative speech, and despite the endless messages on this
> > list, the web
> > forums, and the AS/400 newsgroup, that I have no hope that IBM
> > will do what
> > Bob suggested in his speech: turn the AS/400 division loose on
> > the market,
> > and have it run by a maniacal, egotistical, charismatic figure
> > that will
> > irritate and motivate and succeed (as they do at Apple,
> > Microsoft and Sun).
> > >>
> > 
> > Hmmmm ... *I* am maniacal, egotistical and charismatic. I'm a
> > PERFECT fit to
> > run the AS/400 division.
> > 
> > Interesting aside: Listen to Tom Peters -- love his stuff --
> > talk about how
> > Lexmark was going NOWHERE until it split from IBM. The
> > _CULTURE_ as IBM was
> > (is?) all wrong. I'm not making this up; Tom Peters said that.
> > 
> > (and if everything were right in the world, we'd all be using
> > Macintoshes)
> > 
> > Peace,
> > 
> > -- Don
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