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Conference kaosws::canada

Title:	True North Strong & Free
Notice:	Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:	POLAR::RICHARDSON

Created:	Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1040
Total number of notes:	13668

845.0. "Bob's visit to Toronto" by KAOFS::B_VANVALKENB () Fri Jul 08 1994 18:26

    Bob Palmer will be visiting Toronto on the 11th and there is a 
    short open meeting planned. First 75 people will be admitted
    (or something like that). I'd like for any one that attends this
    meeting to put a description of what happens/ed here as well
    as your impressions of BP.
    
    Also ... for any one in the know. Is there any reason that a
    larger space could not be rented for these occassions ??
    75 people is not a lot and it's not like BP is up here very often.
    
    
    Brian V

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845.1 1 vote for "Impressed by Bob" TROOA::MANNELLA Obfuscation Obliterator Wed Jul 20 1994 16:49 30

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	Brian, I attended Bob's "cafeteria" talk at the Toronto customer centre. He spoke openly and honestly about the issues at hand. He said how pleased he was about Canada's results (wishing all territories had done as well) and mentioned Kanata's successes and likely expanding role in our manufacturing organization. He fielded questions freely from the audience that covered topics like - Stock value versus actual book value (market perceptions etc) - His personal motivation in leading Digital to recovery - Decision criteria for de/investing in Business Units - The future of S/W products like RDB/DBMS - Making touch decisions, and fixing them when they're wrong I had heard Bob speak in Hawaii, and was even more impressed by his talk here. I feel he is the epitome of a good leader - Presentable, Articulate, Knowledgeable about our industry, Credible and honest. He talked about the "pain" he's felt in "excessing" many employees, and that Digital has offered most employees "extremely fair" financial bridge packages because it's the right thing to do. I believe Bob was in town for other reasons and sort of "squeezed in" this employee address. The customer centre only seats about 50-75 people and it was so packed that there was many people overflowing into the halls at both doors. All-in-all, a decent event. Mario

Brian,

I attended Bob's "cafeteria" talk at the Toronto customer centre. He spoke
openly and honestly about the issues at hand. He said how pleased he was 
about Canada's results (wishing all territories had done as well) and 
mentioned Kanata's successes and likely expanding role in our manufacturing 
organization.

He fielded questions freely from the audience that covered topics like

	- Stock value versus actual book value (market perceptions etc)
	- His personal motivation in leading Digital to recovery
	- Decision criteria for de/investing in Business Units
	- The future of S/W products like RDB/DBMS
	- Making touch decisions, and fixing them when they're wrong

I had heard Bob speak in Hawaii, and was even more impressed by his talk 
here. I feel he is the epitome of a good leader - Presentable, Articulate, 
Knowledgeable about our industry, Credible and honest.

He talked about the "pain" he's felt in "excessing" many employees, and 
that Digital has offered most employees "extremely fair" financial bridge 
packages because it's the right thing to do.

I believe Bob was in town for other reasons and sort of "squeezed in" this 
employee address. The customer centre only seats about 50-75 people and it 
was so packed that there was many people overflowing into the halls at both 
doors. All-in-all, a decent event.

Mario