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     Hughlysses |
This was posted to Facebook earlier this week; I thought it was an interesting read and it seems some of it might apply to EBR:
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| Chauly |
Just to be clear: Victory was "target-fixated"(bad), but Motus is "laser-focused"(good) Right? | ||
| Nillaice |
'target-fixated' is a motorcycling term with negative connotations and 'laser' sounds more precise and high-tech  hopefully Motus will take off and be the next huge American moto brand. then they can slap their logo on everything and people can replace all their old and worn out H-D badged dog food dishes and soap dispensers. | ||
| Greg_e |
So who says that a Sport or Sport Touring is what people want? I would not want to go back to a sport touring machine for two up riding of any distance, that's why I bought a real full honest touring motorcycle. I see nothing in the Motus line up that would push me to buy one of their machines. Maybe if I didn't have my old XB9R there would be a little temptation, but not at all right now. Victory, at least, had something I might have wanted, but they lacked support (dealers) around me so I ended up with one of those over priced HD machines, good thing I bought it used so it was almost affordable. Anyway, wish them luck. Maybe import duties will go up so high that we have no choice but to buy USA, which might also help out EBR. | ||
| Jaimec |
Motus letter touched on the one BIG problem with publicly-owned motorcycle companies. Their primary focus is NOT the customer, no matter what their colorful, glossy marketing material may say. Their primary focus is maximizing stockholder return! Forbes magazine did a wonderful article a couple of years ago about how perverse this form of "capitalism" is. The primary focus of a business should be: 1) Attract new customers 2) Retain old customers. That's IT. But modern publicly-owned corporations spend far more time on "maximizing profit" than anything else. Case in point: I worked for a major travel and leisure company over a decade ago. They outsourced their IT department to IBM Global Services (and fortunately, I got to hold on to my position and was transferred over to IGS). It quickly became obvious to me that IBM didn't give a rat's ASS about our old clients as long as they were profitable. It was more profitable to occasionally miss a service level agreement (SLA) and pay the fine, than to have the knowledgeable tech staff on payroll to insure we never missed an SLA. Every year there were more lay-offs, and more missed SLAs... but they were able to replace us with cheaper overseas technicians so they just didn't care. They even had an internal project they called "LEAN." I'm not sure what it REALLY meant, but my friends all said it really stood for "Lay-off Every American Now." Is EBR owned by a privately-held or a publicly-held corporation? | ||
| Froggy |
It is BS like that which was part of the reason Dell went back to being a privately owned company. EBR is private as far as I know. I believe Liquid Assets is also a private company | ||
| Airbozo |
Private companies are all about the customer. Public companies are all about the stockholder. Dell is all about making money no matter what. They know they can piss off customers because they are one of the only games in town with a broad product line, so they mostly do not fit into the above statements. I have worked with them and against them for the last 15 years. | ||
| Hootowl |
Blame the law, not the companies. Publicly held companies are required to take any avenue possible to maximize shareholder returns. It's their fiduciary duty. Management can be held liable for passing up opportunities to make money. The quarterly results are all that matters. Long term results take a back seat. The long term health of the country's economy are irrelevant. | ||
| Jaimec |
I remember all the excitement regarding Facebook's IPO. I dreaded it and my concerns turned out to be warranted. They are trying to monetize as much of it as they can and it gets worse and worse every month. At least it's entertaining watching the war going on between Facebook and AdBlock Plus. Good to know EBR is still privately held. A lot of Erik's problems I believe were because his company was held by a publicly-owned company. Wandell was a PERFECT example of a CEO of a publicly held company. | ||
| Crusty |
Wandell was a PERFECT example of a horse's ass Fixed it for you.  | ||
| Jaimec |
Same thing.  |
