Re: Tipton's COMMON opening speech

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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