Thread regarding Emerson Electric Co. layoffs

Emerson stuck in the past

Did anyone read Brooke Sutherland’s article about Emerson being stuck in the past? It was an enlightening read and one where most of the blame was placed on Farr and mentioned his disastrous WSJ article that clearly Lal is looking to distance the new, revamped Emerson away from.

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The only modern thing about Emerson is that Delta V has gone 'viral'.

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My biggest questions is, does Lal still have the overhead projector? My most shocking DNF moment was not his outbursts or questionable decision making, it was that he presented to a room full of people in the auditorium using an overhead projector. I felt like I had just stepped back in time 20 years to high school Algebra class.

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“I know where the bodies are buried, because Ram and I left a trail of them at every stop we made.”

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What the article completely missed was most of the success that Farr leveraged for his first 5 years was built on what Chuck Knight created from 1975 - 1995. What Farr brought in what cronyism and politics, creating a vacuum and lots of good people left. Not sure if Lal is repeating the same mistake

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