Adrian Midgley wrote:
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> I think there are at least two varieties of people in business.
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> The long strategy ones build things, and keep them working, on the
> basis that value is generated and accrues.
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> The short strategy ones buy, sell, strip, dismantle, work in for pay
> whil looking for their next job, and generally take something with
> value, extract some of the value destroying the rest, toss it aside
> and move on.
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> Most of the value in the world was produced by the long strategy type.
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> GPs I think, and probably doctors in general, tend to the long
> strategy - it goes with 30 year careers in the same place and so on.
> So do FLOSS programmers, BTW.
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> A masterpiece of management is to take long strategy types, and coerce
> them into behaving like short strategy ones. It leads to satisfaction
> only in a very limited group, who get their fun not from creating value.
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> Which management approach is most evident in NHS IT, within the NHS,
> and outside the NHS?
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