Communicative Stock Determinations

I’m starting a stock research effort right here, right now. Instead of dealing with pesky numbers, sales efforts, and business plans I’m going to focus on what really matters culture. (Because you know that twenty fifty seventy percent of those pesky numbers can be easily faked.)

I’ve been seeing at least a few emerging threads that lead me to believe culture is the most important thing. Margaret Wheatley in A Simpler Way and Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World argues that our businesses today look like large machines, plodding along moving in cog like motions, similar to how we used to view biology and physics. She suggests we look at recent discoveries in biology and quantum physics and allow ourselves to play and have flexibility. What I’ve read of the cluetrain manifesto they urge us to look at all ranks of the company and open them up and utilize the contacts within and without the company. Quite similar to this is Market Intelligence, a marketing concept that advocates utilizing information at all levels of the organization.

The company in question utilizes none of this wisdom. They have the most structured and hierarchal organization. Half of their documents have “Highly Confidential – Proprietary Information” written on the bottom of them. The people who actually do the work are seen quite frankly as replaceable commodities, despite that they’re the all important glue that brings the service together and delivers it.

Luckily they’re not in ecommerce or something like that, that requires them to pay attention to their customers.

Who are they? What do they do? I won’t tell but I wouldn’t expect those who can’t hear to hear a pin do anything, let alone drop.