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As William Holden says at the end of Executive Suite , the 1954 film about the succession battle at an old-line manufacturing company, a company can't depend on just one man and still thrive.
Plusses of the new ad medium: It's excellent for start-ups, where on-line commerce is often stressed, and on-line sites seem more accommodating to advertisers than print or broadcast, especially regarding old-line church-and-state issues about blurring the line between editorial and advertising content.
In the long run, the impact of day trading on stock prices is negligible, and although the rise of the Net has facilitated day trading, in fact day trading as it's done at firms such as All-Tech and Momentum looks more like old investing than new investing, in this sense: The people who profit from day trading are not the day traders, but the firms that reap huge commissions from all the trading, just as old-line brokers tended to encourage people to trade to increase churn in their accounts and boost commissions.
In part, this may be because Frum is a bit of a snob; practically the only argument in the book that strikes Chatterbox as truly passionate is Frum's withering denunciation of the old-line northern Protestant sects for failing, in trying to make Christianity more "relevant," to attract new members.
On the other hand, Fiorina is making too little of her accomplishment because she's downplaying just how talented she had to be to rise as fast as she has and to overcome all the lingering prejudices against women executives, especially in the old-line technology industry.
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