[DML] Re: Johnny D the Pseudo Man

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, BePositive2000@xxxx wrote:
<SNIP>
> Yet is was John DeLorean himself, not the big guys and not his
> employees or suppliers that made the company fail. It was HIS inept
> management, ego, arrogance, greed, quality problems, poor business
> practices and at least questionable business ethics that cause the
> company failure.  The ripple effect of his actions also cause the
> demise of other inovative companies that naievely or foolishly relied
> on his word and made significant investments in anticipation of a
> successful DMC.
<SNIP>

Speaking totally unbiased, I can honestly tell you this: Pinning the
entire responsibility for the failure of DMC on John DeLorean, is like
trying to give him the entire credit for the companies' ability to
actually make it into production. While you can cite examples of JZD's
actions that may fit into the catergories of "inept management, ego,
arrogance, greed, quality problems, poor business practices and at
least questionable business ethics", you'd be even more hard pressed
to find other employees who were not guilty of those same negative
actions against the company.

And just as it was a group effort to start-up the company, so was it
to bring it crashing down. There is no chaos action here which cause
the company to come falling down. While one can site both examples of
good business moves, and negative ones, and what the company should
have done, it still doesn't change the fact that the company was
brought down by many, and not a single person. And hell, believe me
when I say that I'd LOVE to have a 'scapegoat to blame the companies
failure one! The fact that I can't go down to my local dealership to
buy a brand new 2005 DeLorean, that I can't go and buy parts from said
dealer, the fact that many people don't respect my car, and that I
catch allot of hell in the form of crude drug jokes and other negative
comments, and I totally despise the fact that the storybook tale of a
man who rallied many to take one the giants of the automotive industry
doesn't have a happy ending. I hate all the negativity surrounding my
car, because of the companies failure, and most of all, I hate the
fact that I have absolutely no one to blame it on! I'd love to say,
"Detroit did it!", or "The British Government did it!", or someone
else did it because of some sort of hidden agenda! But I can't,
because that wouldn't be true. There is no single person/organization,
or cause that lead to the companies demise.

Did JZD mismanage DMC? Maybe, since after all he had to spend an
insane amount of time and focus on gaining working capitol to fuel the
company, rather than drive it. But lets not forget that entire
managerial staff that the company hired, and issued regular paychecks
to, so they could MANAGE the company. Like I've said before, DMC was
this giant cookie jar that everyone had their hands in, and when even
the jar broke, JZD was the first one blamed. He took a HUGE risk
putting his name the company, so it's failures and successes would
reflect the most upon him.

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"




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