Posted by
Icarus on Saturday, December 27, 2008 2:17:09 PM
The Seattle Public Library patrons can download audio books online, instead of having to go to the library. Given Seattle's latest weather, with record snowfall and frozen streets, this is a bit of a God send. Thanks to the service I'm able to 'check out' an audio book online and listen while I'm working with the laptop. The latest book I have playing in the background while I
Tweet and check
Facebook and look for work and develop my online 'brand' and other various computer tasks is Jim Collins'
Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap ... and others don't. It is mildly interesting, in a broad general sense.
The use of one company, however, as exemplifying the "good to great" concept, will turn a lot of people off if they listen to or read the book today. That company is none other than Fannie Mae.
Jim Collins needs to update this text and remove that so-called public/private company that is the lynch pin of our current economic crisis.
Were it not for Fannie Mae, hand in hand with Democrat social engineers, shoving sub-prime loans down everyone's throat America (and very likely the world) would not be in the financial condition it is today.
Fannie Mae ... a "Good to Great" company?
I don't think so.