Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ...
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:01AM
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> What alternative would you propose to merging?
I don't know.
> but still better than doing nothing.
Maybe not. Maybe it takes away management attention from figuring out how to actually be competitive in the new environment.
"We have to do something; this is something; therefore we have to do this" is rarely the right thing to do. It's often just a mask for "we don't know what to do".
On the other hand, "we can't figure out what to do, but we're dead if we don't do something, so we're going to do something and hope that it randomly turns out to be useful" may have a higher expectation value than doing nothing.
I don't know.
> but still better than doing nothing.
Maybe not. Maybe it takes away management attention from figuring out how to actually be competitive in the new environment.
"We have to do something; this is something; therefore we have to do this" is rarely the right thing to do. It's often just a mask for "we don't know what to do".
On the other hand, "we can't figure out what to do, but we're dead if we don't do something, so we're going to do something and hope that it randomly turns out to be useful" may have a higher expectation value than doing nothing.