Message-Id: <199706231123.HAA17862@brickbat9.mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 07:27:24 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: Meme pools?
If Price,
>
>No I'm not. Thanks again. I have been struck by the school of management
>research which points out how difficult it is for organizations to acquire
>the information they need because their acquisition is filtered by the
>collective organisational perception. IBM, Apple and Digital all nearly
>died [still may die] from this problem, but the causes were different in
>each case thought the symptoms were similar.
>
The business environment is changing so fast that companies are constantly
in the position faced by large animals when the big comet crashed to earth.
The problem is to maintin some continuity in the organization while
swapping one culture for another. Not an easy problem.
William L. Benzon 201.217.1010
708 Jersey Ave. Apt. 2A bbenzon@mindspring.com
Jersey City, NJ 07302 USA http://www.newsavanna.com/wlb/
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