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I agree with it,CEOs must work just as doggedly to confront and deal with their own demons and foibles as they do to help their charges come to grips with theirs.

dblwyo

Excellent - thanks. One of the worst time a rock climber faces is looking down and realizing that postage stamp between their boot edges (not really but this is a family blog)is a six-acre parking lot into which they can splat. The response is often to cling frozenly to the face, crying for mother. McK, Booz and BCG found that 70% of major companies had similar experiences during the height of the turmoil. As Dean's article shows they are just beginning to adapt to the short-term exigencies. In talking to folks in the re-structure and performance business those preparing for a new, reset future is vanishingly small. The next decade will be fundamentally different than the last three and, on the whole, most are frozen on the rock.
On the whole. I grade a "wait and see" as a reactive C/C-. Prepartion for, let's say, 2003 instead of 2007 at best, a B and "resetting" (borrowing Immelt's label) as an A. When the largest proportion of businesses are in "wait and see mode" they're going to lock themselves into reactive mode and be scrambling to play catch up for years imho. Let's say 15% are F, 20% are D, 50-60% are C/C-, 10% are B and 0-5% are A then.

And unlikely to change because of organizational resistence to change - about which you know a lot.

That means a lot of aggregate under-performance for a long time to come, my best guess. We squeaked thru the Tech Bust on the back of low hiring, limited investment, financial engineering and a Credit Bubble.

Don't think there's going to be any places to hide.

dblwyo

Excellent - thanks. One of the worst time a rock climber faces is looking down and realizing that postage stamp between their boot edges (not really but this is a family blog)is a six-acre parking lot into which they can splat. The response is often to cling frozenly to the face, crying for mother. McK, Booz and BCG found that 70% of major companies had similar experiences during the height of the turmoil. As Dean's article shows they are just beginning to adapt to the short-term exigencies. In talking to folks in the re-structure and performance business those preparing for a new, reset future is vanishingly small. The next decade will be fundamentally different than the last three and, on the whole, most are frozen on the rock.
On the whole. I grade a "wait and see" as a reactive C/C-. Prepartion for, let's say, 2003 instead of 2007 at best, a B and "resetting" (borrowing Immelt's label) as an A. When the largest proportion of businesses are in "wait and see mode" they're going to lock themselves into reactive mode and be scrambling to play catch up for years imho. Let's say 15% are F, 20% are D, 50-60% are C/C-, 10% are B and 0-5% are A then.

And unlikely to change because of organizational resistence to change - about which you know a lot.

That means a lot of aggregate under-performance for a long time to come, my best guess. We squeaked thru the Tech Bust on the back of low hiring, limited investment, financial engineering and a Credit Bubble.

Don't think there's going to be any places to hide.

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