Bongo Boy
Observer
I'm pretty much an idiot, but I do know one thing...that [Unimog] is about the coolest flippin' unit rolling. My good god that is a cool truck...I can hardly imagine how much ammo that thing can carry.
Second thing is just based on experience--the relationships we think should exist between companies because of 'ownership' are probably not the real relationships we experience. Companies buy companies, merge with companies, etc., and it has no bearing whatsoever on how the respective companies behave or operate.
Years can go by after mergers and acquisitions, with no persceptible changes in the parties' operations. MB doesn't acquire Chrysler with any aim of changing Chrysler's customer service model. That's not what's going on--these guys don't do these deals to make you a happier customer. Duh. Shareholders don't say, "Oh gee, the customers will be so much happier and will get so much better service they'll just have to buy so much more crap from us." I don't think this is the way it works.
Many folks, I think, assume outlandish things like, 'MB bought chrysler, therefore chrysler will soon achieve the quality levels of MB'. Jeeeez, where's that logic thread come from? Years would go by before anyone in chrysler even saw an MB person, or had a clue about how MB did quality. The very assumption that 'there is a way MB does quality' is total bs. Why would you assume that? No. To assume M&A activities have any bearing on the products or services you experience is superstition, at best.
But while I'm expressing opinions, you've chosen nothing of what Dostoevsky offers! Good god...possibly a genius of our time, but certainly a hero of our age. What higher emotions could one man evoke?
Second thing is just based on experience--the relationships we think should exist between companies because of 'ownership' are probably not the real relationships we experience. Companies buy companies, merge with companies, etc., and it has no bearing whatsoever on how the respective companies behave or operate.
Years can go by after mergers and acquisitions, with no persceptible changes in the parties' operations. MB doesn't acquire Chrysler with any aim of changing Chrysler's customer service model. That's not what's going on--these guys don't do these deals to make you a happier customer. Duh. Shareholders don't say, "Oh gee, the customers will be so much happier and will get so much better service they'll just have to buy so much more crap from us." I don't think this is the way it works.
Many folks, I think, assume outlandish things like, 'MB bought chrysler, therefore chrysler will soon achieve the quality levels of MB'. Jeeeez, where's that logic thread come from? Years would go by before anyone in chrysler even saw an MB person, or had a clue about how MB did quality. The very assumption that 'there is a way MB does quality' is total bs. Why would you assume that? No. To assume M&A activities have any bearing on the products or services you experience is superstition, at best.
But while I'm expressing opinions, you've chosen nothing of what Dostoevsky offers! Good god...possibly a genius of our time, but certainly a hero of our age. What higher emotions could one man evoke?
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