Palm Gets a Pep Talk

Now Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has sent employees a note explaining the financial announcement he made earlier, and letting them know his plans—it’s a very strange message. Talk about a company in the dark. Shouldn’t the company’s employees already know they’re doing poorly? And then he tells them that for the past three weeks the executive team has been “working extremely hard to improve product performance.” And what has the rest of the company been doing for those three weeks? “In the next few weeks, your management will work with your to make sure your priorities are laser-focused,” Rubinstein says. Well, no sense starting right away. Read the entire message to see if this is the type of message that you’d like to receive as an employee.