Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:33:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, n@nectar.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kairetsu Message-ID: <20000127093335.E53307@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200001260608.WAA72904@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <199909291723.KAA15997@usr06.primenet.com> <200001260608.WAA72904@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 22:08:55 -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> Our final solutions was to operate as separate, but associated legal >>> entities. The ISP is operated as a totally separate legal entity >>> from the Carrier business, they do have a possible affiliated status under >>> the 47 USC act, but so far the lawyers have keep us clean on that one. >> >> Heh. You're a "Kairetsu". > > I finally bothered to go dig out just what this was, it took a while > to find this reference that gave me some form of a definition: > > Mutasa pointed to the role of small to medium enterprises as an engine > for growth. In Japan they call this the Kairetsu. It is the hidden > wealth creating machine which also abounds in Europe. It is striking > to appreciate what the Germans call the Mittlestand The Mittelstand is > Germanys conglomeration of small firms creating wealth from exports. > These firms are supported by two factors. One a national export > infrastructure and two the business orientation (or culture) of small > firms. > > Yes, we are a Kairetsu, and rapidly moving from the ``small'' to the > ``medium'' class as enterprises go :-) I don't know about Kairetsu, but this isn't the type of the Mittelstand. Mittelstand companies stay the way they are, without great changes. This stability is one of their biggest advantages. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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