https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:16:17 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163291 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:48:21 +0000 Opinions and Polls Alan Green https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163291 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163256 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:40:09 +0000 1) The CBS buyout?
2) In maybe the late 80's-early 90's?

If so, how did Fender get their quality back up to par.
Is it the current nostalga(sp?) craze of Fender that keeps their quality up?]]> Opinions and Polls xg5a https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163256 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163240 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:03:27 +0000 Opinions and Polls Wes Inman https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163240 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163162 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:48:13 +0000 Opinions and Polls chalkoutline https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163162 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163160 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:23:28 +0000
They want someone who knows how to do a 'turnaround'... but they're not hiring the top dog. So a new COO might run the factory better, maybe even get the QC up, but the decisions that have an immediate impact on how the world sees Gibson - like selling the 'Signature' line to the mass merchants - are made by the CEO.

He's gonna stay put; he owns the place.

Gibson was nearly bankrupt 20 years ago when two guys bought it - the current CEO and the current president. They've already done their turnaround successfully, cured many of the problems that existed before them, and made the place profitable again for a while. So the big problems they have now are the direct result of their poor decisions (mass market guitars, insanely expensive direct MIDI guitars, etc.) - and those are going to be sacred cows.]]> Opinions and Polls NoteBoat https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163160 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163119 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:03:51 +0000
I've had jobs that pay better.

I left them because of boards of directors that bought off on ideas as meritless as putting our brand name on a bad product and selling it cheap . . guaranteeing lots of people come to associate the brand with crap.

I like making less money working for a company that knows how to succeed.

Yeah, I'd really hate it. Corporate culture reality is this -- group think wins. Unless a company has crashed into the toilet and is in the process of ceasing to exist (Chrysler in the early 80's, IBM in the late 80's, etc.) the status quo will win out and "radical" ideas (which is anything different from what the CEO and Board of Directors already thinks) simply get you marginalized.

Maybe Gibson wil get lucky and hit the wall, tanking so badly that they have to revitalize in order to even survive, but more likely they'll continue to pull just enough profit from name recognition for another 20 years as they slowly sink in relivance to just another company that makes instruments.]]> Opinions and Polls kingpatzer https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163119 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163116 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:57:13 +0000 Opinions and Polls JasonColucci https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163116 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163115 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:56:49 +0000
That has all the allure of working at GMC . . .

Failing companies with cluess directors don't have allure for me, regardless of their history and name recognition.

I guess my day job has sapped me of my idealism :)]]> Opinions and Polls kingpatzer https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163115 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163111 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:50:09 +0000
Steve]]> Opinions and Polls SteveS https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163111 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163108 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:42:59 +0000
Gibson's CEO and board of directors are convinced that things like diluting the Gibson name by selling branded crap in discount shopping stores like Target and Wallmart is a good idea.

They are completely of the mind that cutting costs is the route to higher profits.

They completely fail to apprehend that the reason they're loosing market share is that they aren't delivering the quality experience their markup demands and that to fix that they need to build up the Q/A department to the point where customer service isn't even needed in the company. At the same time hiring expensive top-end luthiers to drive their premier products back through the roof in terms of both quality and artistic merit. And that they can either leave the under $1500 market to everyone else (which would be their best bet) or go nuts by spending money on some really high-end manufacturing refits so that they can compete quality wise in that space as well.

They want all the profit and market share, but they don't actually want to deliever either quality or cost competitive products.

My bet is that whoever takes the job will be out the door inside 18 months and won't have made an inch of progress.]]> Opinions and Polls kingpatzer https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/dream-job/#post-163108