I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.
You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
Microsoft isn't stupid.
Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.