If It Is Not Broke – Make it Bigger ?
Remember when no fun loving cook would be caught dead without the shredding , chopping, slicing , grating gizmo that revolutionized home cooking – the Cuisinart ? It’s creator Carl Sontheimer , showed that he more than understood the American appetite for powerful , time saving kitchen gadgets. This machine – the Cuisinart filled the companies sales and profits as well as heftily expanded the breadth and depth of its management cadres.
The problems appeared that Mr. Sontheimer , the company mentor and powerhouse had forgotten the formula – or his specific management and marketing formula success for their specific firm – that was innovation and anticipating the needs of the market.
Management types are good at taking credit for what falls in their laps- what god gives them , but loathe to accept any criticisms – even if real and true. Rah , rah , rah – we are all rowing in the same boat – with directives from head office – or the upper floors – when they are clueless and being pablum fed safe data by yes men – who will hopefully , in their minds and fantasies , be in the same perk ridden positions.
And you wonder why General Motors went to hell in a handbasket.