With the current global slowdown and massive lay-offs in the IT industry, how much do you think the contemporary IT companies are run (dictated) by stock exchange analists rather than their respective CEO's and management teams?

Do the CEO's fear the verdicts of the analists on the Nasdaq? Do they take measures just to satisfy the demand of a small group of people or is their reasoning pure economical?

You had better be careful who's toes you stand on there! After all, you may want to continue your career without having to use the phrase 'Do you want fries with that?'

I'd be happy to serve to anyone, belgian fries of course, the best there are! :p

Don't forget the belgium beer. God knows how you guys actually manage to get home on a Saturday night!

You have to be smart and stack the stuff in your own fridge. It's a matter of keeping the distance between your bed and drinking spot as minimal as possible.

Love the idea, I'm off to get an IV drip and a bottle of Jack Daniels right now!

From Analysts and CEO's to fries and beer??????

Disturbing insights to the male mind here :)

Have you never been on a working lunch with these guys? And look at the conferences...

But now lets try and change it in a completely different direction.....


GOLF

Hi,

Here in Mexico they said "French fries..." Where is Belgium???

Marcel

Marcel,

Most of the people know them as french fries but they really are belgian fries. Since they were invented by french speaking Belgian, people commonly make the mistake of thinking they hail from France. Make no mistake, we make the best fries in the world!

PS: Belgium lies between France, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK (North sea).

for saying french fries instead of belgium fries.
Belgium uses a special fat to fry the potatoes that I never saw in other countries, and (take this with a lot of salt) the french copied the belgium but they use oil instead, and then this spread to all the rest of the world... :p

The French have a better marketing department than the Belgians do. (or do a better job of taking credit for things :)

BTW -- I KNOW that some software companies are following the dictates of the analysts. We are a reseller (non-Baan) and one of our partner companies was willing to drop the price of its products by over 60% in order to get it into the quarter (for a customer that was definitely going to buy anyway). Now in a rational society, $400K next month would be better than $160K this month. But NO, got to meet the needs of the stock market. Oh well -- short term thinking.

Finally, here is a link all of you will like (to change the topic again) that is a great joke on all of us in the consulting community.

http://www.despair.com/consulting.html

-- Jim