The Barney Oliver Amplifier Story

Another audio brother, Thomas, sent me this link last week.

The Barney Oliver Amplifier Story

Doesn’t it sound like HP was a wonderful company to work in back then? If you read The HP Way, you’ll appreciate better the way Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard envisioned the company is run.

I was working in Agilent (the original HP later became Agilent) when I read The HP Way, and you can’t help but feel that in today’s cut throat, competitive, great-results-every-quarter biz world, a lot of what makes this company such a nice place to work in, is gone forever.

Thomas is right to say that visiting  the site only makes you reminisce on the “good old days” back when people don’t go gaga for results every quarter, when management still take long term views when making decisions.  Read The Barney Oliver Amplifier Story and you’ll realize, they even know how to have fun within the organization.

I would love to get my hands on this amplifier!

24 March 2009 | Business | Comments