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De: Rgvivace@aol.com <Rgvivace@aol.com>
Para: peugeot-l@egroups.com <peugeot-l@egroups.com>
Fecha: Domingo, 04 de Julio de 1999 06:18 p.m.
Asunto: [Peugeot] Re: Elusive Success?
>In a message dated 99-07-04, Brian O. wrote:
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><< I'd have to agree with you wholeheartedly, Mort. Peugeot's products are
> sound, at least nowadays, but their 'non can-do attitude' of their
> supposed leadership in Paris is what has been holding them back from the
> US market now for years. Until they get some younger people with
> different ideas in charge, perhaps we'll never be able to purchase a new
> Peugeot here. I figured that new guy that took over after Calvet would
> bring his own 'sea-change', but he's just spewing the same old shit the
> previous leaders did. What a disappointment........
> Brian O.
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>Brian,
>"Different ideas" yes, new ideas yes, but what's this sh*t about "younger"?
>I've spent my entire career in performing arts marketing, mostly symphony
>orchestras, and I hear this "younger" crap all the time. What's wrong with
>"older"? Do they stop thinking? Is their money somehow worth less? Is
>*lack* of experience some kind of virtue?
>
>At 44, I'm as baby boomer and as yuppie as you get, but I have never
>understood this knee jerk reverence of youth which, in my experience, is
>indeed wasted on the young. For fresh thinking "outside the box" give me
an
>old Colin Chapman or Ferdinand Porsche over some focus-group quoting MBA
>anyday.
>
>Rob Gold
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