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How Could Digital's Collapse Be So Precipitous? It's Because, In Many Ways, Financial Performance Data Is Misleading. As You Move Up To The Top Of The Market, You're Getting Rid Of The Less Profitable Products At The Low End And Adding Business With More Attractive Margins At The High End. The Rate Of Unit Volume Growth Might Be Tapering Off As You Pursue These Smaller Markets, But Your Margins Actually Look Better. So Wall Street Rewards Your Stock Price Until You Hit The Ceiling.

Many Think Of Management As Cutting Deals And Laying People Off And Hiring People And Buying And Selling Companies. That's Not Management, That's Deal Making. Management Is The Opportunity To Help People Become Better People. Practiced That Way, It's A Magnificent Profession.

When I Have My Interview With My God, Our Conversation Will Focus On The Individuals Whose Self-esteem I Was Able To Strengthen, Whose Faith I Was Able To Reinforce, And Whose Discomfort I Was Able To Assuage—a Doer Of Good, Regardless Of What Assignment I Had. These Are The Metrics Of That Matter In Measuring My Life. This Realization, Which Occurred Nearly Fifteen Years Ago, Guided Me Every Day To Seek Opportunities To Help People In Ways Tailored To Their Individual Circumstances. My Happiness And My Sense Of Worth Has Been Immeasurably Improved As A Result.

The Outsourcing Gurus Have Been Driving The Theory, And They Are Saying Everybody Ought Always To Do This. But It Is Really Contingent On Where You Are On The Spectrum From "not Good Enough" To "more Than Good Enough," Relative To Each Tier Of The Market.

But Actually Theory Is Very Practical. Gravity Is A Theory, For Example. It Allows You To Predict That If You Step Off A Cliff You Will Fall; You Don't Have To Collect Data On That.