Dell tells staff to get ready for the biggest transformation in company history(www.businessinsider.com)

8 pointsby taubek9 hours ago3 comments

elbci6 hours ago
Saab, Akay, Nokia, etc etc... I had a Dell phase in the 00s trying to ditch Crapple. I'm like a infallible bankruptcy detector :))
Hackbraten9 hours ago
> Operate with a sense of urgency.
How is that sustainable?
- techblueberry9 hours ago
  I work in a company where operating with a sense of urgency is a value, and I by my very nature sort of naturally operate with a sense of urgency, and I can tell it drives the people around me crazy.
  It’s funny to here an exec say something like this because then you have to tune to degrees.
  But this whole thing is basically; Dell is rewriting the whole company OS? I want to read stories about the epic ways this breaks down, because even in a best case scenario where 2 years down the line this is an amazing success, the disruption will be crazy.
- ferguess_k7 hours ago
  I don't know but billg was said to be paranoid about competition at least in the first 15 or so years sitting at the top and this did impact everyone else.
k3108 hours ago
Translation: "We're putting all our eggs in one basket. Nothing could possibly go wrong. We're sure that you will quickly change everything about the way you work, and to ignore news that you hear about colossal overruns and abandonment of drop-in replacement projects by customers of little fly-by-night companies like Oracle.
We spent over a year on the overhaul!"
- ferguess_k7 hours ago
  I couldn't sleep, so I got up last night and re-read it. Then I figured it out, it's "layoff" all over the pages.