Posted by TimP on Sun Nov 8 20:08:09 1998
In Reply to: small is beautiful posted by william on November 06, 1998 at 21:30:08:
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>Very nice survey of Taiwan in this week's Economist,
>suggesting small firms which are basically contractors
>to each other lead to exceptionally resilient economy,
>flexibility outweighing any loss of scale-savings.>Taiwan has one limited company per eighteen people!
I listened to an R4 programme which explained that
Taiwan is still Feudal, and that the first thing a
businessman does is start a family, with a No 1 wife,
but as business goes so do the number of wives.They are still way away from equality between the sexes
and other essentials of western business.Face is still so important that business can easily
turn into vendetta - mmmmm maybe we are not so different after all.I take the main point, and had arrived at it separately,
for the silliest of reasons :- you can only get 17 people
comfortably into the left hand frame of Paneris :)It leads me to think that we must plan to bud.
At 18 (or similar magic number) Paneris-the-site should
perhaps be cloned.
If we were to agree on this how would CVS enable us to keep
two sites in step?yours
timP