From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Joerg  wrote:   
      
   > On 11/27/25 2:59 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:   
   > > Joerg  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > [...]   
   > >> As an employer I would not want to have to spend time and their wages to   
   > >> teach someone stuff they should know.   
   > >   
   > > For many years the Philips organisation had a policy of taking on people   
   > > who had shown great ability in one specialism and allowing them to train   
   > > themselves in a different specialism which the company required.  It   
   > > seemed to work well as a long-term strategy and there were many   
   > > discoveries and inventions attributable to it.   
   > >   
   >   
   > However, they tend to rejuvenate innovation capability by acquiring   
   > smaller companies. Both of my employers were bought by Philips. So they   
   > didn't train their own people to develop the products but bought whole   
   > teams from external.   
      
   They were at their best before the 1960s - after that they just started   
   behaving like any other company run by accountants.  (I know one of the   
   founding Philips family was an accountant but he didn't run the   
   company,)   
      
      
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