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Just corporate posturing for the Davos crowd. Pathetic, actually.
Remember back in the '90's when every company went on the "Mission Statement" bandwagon? They were all the same: A big bowl full of word salad, but always including "world class", "synergies" and "by the year 2000". Naturally, 2000 came and went, and all the world-class synergies were no where to be found.
The key as a CEO is to pick your date far enough into the future that you will be long gone by the time it comes around, but close enough so it has the appearance of at least being superficially plausible. The one thing you dare not do is put yourself in the position of having to eat your own dogfood. In the early '90's, that was "by the year 2000". Anymore, they just default back to "ten years".
Assuming HD still exists in 10 years (good odds, but no guarantee), they will still be making their traditional V-twin bikes. If anyone wants to place a bet otherwise, I'll cover any stakes.
Just corporate posturing for the Davos crowd. Pathetic, actually.
Remember back in the '90's when every company went on the "Mission Statement" bandwagon? They were all the same: A big bowl full of word salad, but always including "world class", "synergies" and "by the year 2000". Naturally, 2000 came and went, and all the world-class synergies were no where to be found.
The key as a CEO is to pick your date far enough into the future that you will be long gone by the time it comes around, but close enough so it has the appearance of at least being superficially plausible. The one thing you dare not do is put yourself in the position of having to eat your own dogfood. In the early '90's, that was "by the year 2000". Anymore, they just default back to "ten years".
Assuming HD still exists in 10 years (good odds, but no guarantee), they will still be making their traditional V-twin bikes. If anyone wants to place a bet otherwise, I'll cover any stakes.
So very true, that crap infiltrated the military but i would get verbal reprimands every time I said our mission was to kill people, especially since I was AMMO and we made sure everything used to kill/wage war was ready.
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