tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post2166161309725229483..comments2023-08-25T17:30:36.937+05:30Comments on Business Musings: Are these the guys we work for ?Rameshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-38639785886643729322009-03-17T06:40:00.000+05:302009-03-17T06:40:00.000+05:30Nice comment; thanks kiwi. Yes, as long as any mec...Nice comment; thanks kiwi. Yes, as long as any mechanism, good or bad, keeps corporates on the straight line, I suppose that's fine. Still, if "heart" is an important part of our business life, its difficult to get excited by the shareholders we seem to work for.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4740849900073154554.post-16463713955547069532009-03-16T18:49:00.000+05:302009-03-16T18:49:00.000+05:30Nice, the holy grail of shareholder protection (an...Nice, the holy grail of shareholder protection (and the various paraphernelia that goes with it such as SOX/Audits) has been viewed from a different perspective. But, you might not mind working for a bunch of corporate crooks who are possibly held in some degree of check by way of some fear of the mythical beast called the shareholder? I do not have to name the infamous corporate looters of the past (and the present) who managed to hoodwink a hell a lot of 'shareholders', yet this is not necessarily the majority of companies. There is still some fig leaf in the name of shareholder activism that still protects corporate shame. While I may not fully agree to branding every type of shareholder as categorized in your blog, I still think this is a very very different point of view that you have presented so lucidly. Nice blog - every view has more than one point of reference.<BR/>Cheers - KiwiblokeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com