Linfox and ABV, page-49

The right people need to be in the right positions within a company as it matures. At different stages you need different focus. The engineers have produce a good product however the production and prior expansion plans have been disastrous to shareholder value and market confidence . I am not on the inside of the company to know at what stages who was involved in such decisions.

Should we start engineer jokes here so I can all have a laugh?

A software developer, a hardware engineer and a mid-level manager were on their way to a conference center located near the top of a mountain. After the conference they were driving down the steep mountain road and suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?
"I know," said the manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."No, no," said the hardware engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way". "Well," said the software developer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back to the top of the mountain and see if it happens again."