Sometimes accountants make it into management and that is usually not good.
Roger Smith of General Motors is a notable example. /jmac
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Stephen Troy
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:00 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Olympus Trouble (OM-Digital??!)
At 05:42 PM 11/10/2004 -0500, Skip Williams wrote:
>
>R&D projects get prioritized at these big companies and the coffers aren't
bottomless. Unless something like your suggestion, being non-mainstream,
is some executive's pet project or a project that cheaply leverages other
tooling/technology/subsystems, it dies a quick death when the accountants
look at it.
Aw, c'mon Skip. I've been a CPA for 18 years and I have yet to see
anything actually killed by an accountant. It just doesn't work that way
in real life around here - accountants aren't decision makers (thank
goodness!).
Steve Troy
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