^^ Yep
I completely agree with the poster above. I've seen one of the world's largest music companies utterly fail to grasp the concept that downloading songs = easy profit.
I currently work in a massive technology company that was founded on keeping employees happy and they'll do great work for the company.
Now it's INVEST IN OUR COMPANY BECAUSE I'M TELLING YOU IT'S GOOD!
They slash every department to the bone to lower operating costs, which makes investors go all fluttery in the pants and buy up more shares.
Then when the management leave/get tossed out in 2-4 years, the skeleton departments that are left, have to be rebuilt at an ungodly cost.
It's sad that the board of directors aren't gifted with a little more forethought that just, "must hit this years financials!!"