peter green wrote:
>> I like to believe that such businesses die out by process of natural 
>> selection. :)
>
> It would be nice if they did. The trouble is that if you want to grow
> really big (and being large can be a major competitive advantage in many
> markets) its hard to avoid going public on the stock market. Once a
> business does that it's bosses then need to satisfy stock market
> investors that they are doing a good job and suddenly apparent
> performance and meeting targets becomes more important than long term
> viability.

Stupid stock market investors... >:-| 

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