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d2760300.24b1544-@aol.com> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/peugeot-l/?start=894
> In a message dated 99-07-04, Brian O. wrote:
>
> << 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.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 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
>