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 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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Re: Merger, Merger, Merger! said by major marco:said by Transmaster:Merger, Merger, Merger is the mating call of corporate lawyers. Wrong. Corporate attorneys don't call the shots at multi-billion dollar transnational corporations. CEOs and other executive officers do. In house counsel does the board's bidding at the board's explicit behest. Sometimes, and sometimes not. Charles O. Prince was corporate Attorney for Commercial Credit Co.(CCC) when Sandy Weill took over CCC. as CEO and used this relatively small Consumer finance company as his vehicle to ultimately create the powerhouse which is CitiGroup today.
Today, Mr. Prince is CEO of Citigroup. Certainly that doesn't mean that Mr. Weill didn't call the shots during his tenure at the top and if you know anything about his track record, you'd know that he's probably the best businessman that ever lived, but Mr. Prince certainly was a major contributing factor which ultimately earned him the distinquished position he enjoys today.
It was my distinct pleasure to have worked for this company for many years myself in a variety of Management positions and to have witnessed the transformation for myself.
~RRR
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 TopmounterSent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO |  congrats?
...back to the topic at hand, Qwest does need to find a suitor and quick. After numerous false starts into the video business since the US West acquisition, it does not appear that they have or will ever develop the spine and/or pocket book to stick with it and make it happen. | |
RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | said by Topmounter: congrats? ...back to the topic at hand, Qwest does need to find a suitor and quick. After numerous false starts into the video business since the US West acquisition, it does not appear that they have or will ever develop the spine and/or pocket book to stick with it and make it happen. I'm really not sure why you and others seem to feel that Qwest, or any other telecommunications provider HAS to necessarily be in the video business as well.
Personally, I make my selections based on the quality of the service, customer service and price for any given service and not whether it comes bundled with something else from a company that hasn't traditionally specialized in that given product.
If your response is going to be that some cable co's are now offering voip and so it's necessary for telecommunications companies to reciprocate I'd remind you that KFC didn't start selling Hamburgers when McDonalds started offering chicken sandwiches and that there are many, many examples of this kind of thing happening in Corporate America.
It really remains to be seen how it goes for others, like AT&T's project lightspeed, which seems to me to be a half a$$ed attempt to offer video services.
People might just wind up rejecting this whole concept of triple play and stick with the company that they feel traditionally has given them the best service. And, I think that will be particularly true if people don't wind up seeing a lot of value in switching, namely much better prices for these packages versus a la carte pricing from different vendors.
As for me, I LIKE when a company specializes in something, and does it well. I think it's very difficult sometimes for management to ever really do justice to trying to manage several different businesses and product offerings all at once. Those asking for this should now be reminded that what they're asking for is for their cable tech to now suddenly become their phone tech..and internet service tech..and..to simply know it all and do it all well.
What I'd ask you, the reader, is could YOU do that in your job? Could the nurse reading this suddenly also become the desk receptionist at the hospital as well as the cafeteria worker and Doctor too?
Be careful what you wish for, and buy, because you might just wind up very unhappy with it all when taking this variety store approach to selecting important services.
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