a rivulet

barry burton

the songs will write the words
Working at Fitbit. iOS and Ruby developer. Readable code writer. Coffee freak. Slow food and natural wine dilettante. Snow enthusiast. Sometime cyclist.


On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy. […] Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. Managers and investors should not set share price increases as their overarching goal. […] Short-term profits should be allied with an increase in the long-term value of a company.
Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, in an interview with Francesco Guerrera of the Financial Times, as referenced in a Forbes piece introducing Roger L. Martin’s book Fixing the Game.

Tags