jueves, julio 21, 2005

Building a Better Utility: de Keynes a Edison

Un modelo de como debe ser el sector eléctrico. ¡No dejen de leerlo!

Perspective

Many of the obstacles and strategic issues that utilities face today are all too familiar. This time they must be solved with a different business model.

Al final del artículo, de June 2005, por Judith Warrick, ella dice:
 
John Maynard Keynes wrote, "Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." We need to prove that wrong. This industry does not have the luxury of doing things conventionally.
 
Busqué en Internet con Google y encontré un poco más del contexto del que repito lo siguiente:
 
Finally it is the long-term investor, he who most promotes the public interest, who will in practice come in for most criticism, wherever investment funds are managed by committees or boards or banks. [4] For it is in the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

 
En períodos de cambios profundos, nosotros no nos podemos dar el lujo de hacer las cosas de manera convencional tampoco. El pensamiento de John Maynard Keynes es absolutamente correcto dentro de un período de estabilidad, como el la Segunda Ola, pero no para pasar de la Segunda a la Tercera Ola. La sabiduría convencional no aplica: lo que aplica es lo que dijo Thomas Alva Edison, en la transición avanzada de la Primera a la Segunda Ola: "En períodos de cambios profundos, la cosa más peligrosa es avanzar hacia el futuro poco a poco."
 

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