Misc

Why Korean companies out-compete Japanese companies.

"Frankly speaking, from what I've seen, Korean companies will continue to beat Japanese companies for the foreseeable future. There's no way out. Why? Because inside a Korean company, there are no factions fighting for position like what goes on at a Japanese company.
My Samsung friend put it this way,
"At a Korean company everyone is on the same bus and we are all going the same way. At a Japanese company, the leaders have a very difficult time getting everyone pointed in the same direction.""

That was AMD's problem too. Politics, fiefdom building and infighting stunted AMD's growth.

I agree that Roger Goodell is dragging the NFL into decline. This is a very insightful article. Goodell does act more like a tin-plated bureaucrat than a CEO. I still disagree about the Seahawks-Packers call. NFL officials routinely refuse to call pass interference on a hail mary, and I think different regular referee crews would have made different calls on that play because it was that close. What they wouldn't have done was make two different signals in the end zone. That was the real blunder because it was a PR blunder.

"Most people would laugh at any suggestion the NFL is in decline. Profits and television ratings continue to increase with no end in sight, they say. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. The NFL is a monopoly, or more accurately a monopsony buyer of football talent, which in turn comes from a single source – large, mostly government-controlled universities that sponsor college football. The other major North American sports can draw upon substantial foreign markets in addition to colleges. The NFL has never successfully developed an overseas market. And as American universities face dwindling state support and budget crises, football will become less and less relevant – especially as potential liability from brain-injury lawsuits increase."

The sports market is about to suffer a serious shock along with the rest of our economy.

"Goodell's single-minded obsession with his own authority has not driven customers away from games as such, but it's made the product much less enjoyable for the average fan. Bureaucracy always results in higher costs and lower quality, even when it's not immediately perceptible. "

That's right. Goodell is the first commissioner whose name I hear every day. We should never hear his name. He's trying to make himself bigger than the game, and he's taking the game into decline because of it.