An Open Letter
From: Big Business
To: America
Its been an odd year and wow we apologize. Not sure what happened there but it feels like there is probably more in the air to, ahem, enjoy. Anyway we did want to write to say, you know, help us to help you. I think we aren't doing each other too well. Do you really need results from us, growth from us, every three months? Do we need to be poked and prodded and spend damn near half our days just pumping out statistics and reports and... goddammit its tiring.
We can't help but notice from over here that if you allow entities to form long term strategies and to work towards goals you see more success. Take, oh, we don't know, Warren Buffett for example. Guys like him and, if there is a lord in heaven entities like us some day, are able to look at the horizon and go towards longer term goals. Guys like him are able to get up in 1999 in Sun Valley and make his first real prediction about the stock market in 30 years and tell the young hotshots, the new internet lions: don't get used to it. Guys like him get to laugh 2 years later, 3 years later, 4, 5, 6 years later after they labeled him a dinosaur. Let us laugh. You can laugh with us.
Its been too long and we have indulged this ADD for too long. It is getting ridiculous. Let's move our horizon out. Lets be smarter together. Help us to help you.
Kind regards and here is to a happy 2009,
BB
From: Big Business
To: America
Its been an odd year and wow we apologize. Not sure what happened there but it feels like there is probably more in the air to, ahem, enjoy. Anyway we did want to write to say, you know, help us to help you. I think we aren't doing each other too well. Do you really need results from us, growth from us, every three months? Do we need to be poked and prodded and spend damn near half our days just pumping out statistics and reports and... goddammit its tiring.
We can't help but notice from over here that if you allow entities to form long term strategies and to work towards goals you see more success. Take, oh, we don't know, Warren Buffett for example. Guys like him and, if there is a lord in heaven entities like us some day, are able to look at the horizon and go towards longer term goals. Guys like him are able to get up in 1999 in Sun Valley and make his first real prediction about the stock market in 30 years and tell the young hotshots, the new internet lions: don't get used to it. Guys like him get to laugh 2 years later, 3 years later, 4, 5, 6 years later after they labeled him a dinosaur. Let us laugh. You can laugh with us.
Its been too long and we have indulged this ADD for too long. It is getting ridiculous. Let's move our horizon out. Lets be smarter together. Help us to help you.
Kind regards and here is to a happy 2009,
BB
