Comments on: Charlie Munger’s Commencement Address http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/comment-page-1/#comment-613 Anonymous Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:53:06 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/#comment-613 Thanks for the kind words Vamsi. Yes, letting go of subject matter experts without figuring out how to move them to strategic initiatives is a flawed model. To be fair, some American companies do a very good job of this. And here I'm mainly talking about IT SMEs. If we consider business side SMEs also, don't know how the picture changes. -sukumar Thanks for the kind words Vamsi. Yes, letting go of subject matter experts without figuring out how to move them to strategic initiatives is a flawed model. To be fair, some American companies do a very good job of this. And here I’m mainly talking about IT SMEs. If we consider business side SMEs also, don’t know how the picture changes.

-sukumar

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/comment-page-1/#comment-612 Anonymous Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:03:16 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/#comment-612 Excellent Sukumar. I am lucky to come across your blog. (though not a substitute for reading lots of books, it is closest to coming across 'pearls of wisdom and thought' in my otherwise dull architect life). Sometimes when I see American companies firing their domain experts, I pity them for lack of strategy. They are firing away loads of institutional knowledge that is cognitive and never could be replaced. Instead I think they should retain true subject matter experts, challenge them to come out of their shells and contribute to the bottomline. nyway who has time here... Excellent Sukumar. I am lucky to come across your blog. (though not a substitute for reading lots of books, it is closest to coming across ‘pearls of wisdom and thought’ in my otherwise dull architect life).
Sometimes when I see American companies firing their domain experts, I pity them for lack of strategy. They are firing away loads of institutional knowledge that is cognitive and never could be replaced. Instead I think they should retain true subject matter experts, challenge them to come out of their shells and contribute to the bottomline. nyway who has time here…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Anonymous Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:56:02 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/#comment-611 Yeah. Amazing speech. Perhaps you can liken it to exercise - everyone knows it is a good thing, but a lot of people don't do it. Yeah. Amazing speech. Perhaps you can liken it to exercise – everyone knows it is a good thing, but a lot of people don’t do it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Anonymous Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:47:32 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/06/12/charlie-mungers-commencement-address/#comment-610 What a great speech, Sukumar. Every piece of advice is worth a million $$$$. Why is it the most obvious and simplest things are hardest to follow :-) What a great speech, Sukumar. Every piece of advice is worth a million $$$$. Why is it the most obvious and simplest things are hardest to follow :-)

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