Great to read in these cashing times.
I doubt the revenue is going to COHI Associates now...
Gorby
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DUMBO property and the secret of the Margaret Hotel
by Dogpatch ini just received this letter from a former bethel worker who saw my post on the dumbo property plans of the watchtower.
don't tell me they aren't doing this dumbo project just the same as the margaret hotel and who knows how many others?
letter dated 12/18/03 from anonymous .
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Should I send my condolence?
by James Mixon ini was really close to this family, it's.
been over 20 years since i saw them last.
but the husband an elder in his 70's .
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The impact of all the scandals will be minimal.
I remember my own thoughts when I was an active JW:
- the world is against us, we have to expect persecution
- where else can I go?
- It's the best lifestyle for our children
- ok, maybe not everything is good, but it's still a life insurance
That makes that people will stay for years after the first doubts. We did also, isn't it?
Gorby
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BCG matrix - jw.org production model
by Gorbatchov intoday i read some old mba stuff on my bookshelf.
one of it is about the bcg matrix.. the matrix indicates the state of an business (merely production).
if you place the jw.org in the bcg matrix, the result will be "dogs", sometimes more friendly called "pets".. a business in the category "dogs / pets" is to be sold off / liquidated soon.. that's what we see at this moment by the wtbts / jw.org.
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@sheperdless,
I have the following addition:
Printing will be outsourced to:
1) rank and file JW at home PC for the internal documents
2) commercial printing company's for PR documents like invintation and tracts.
The next decades they will hide with a small staff in the Hudson area and do the global internal communication with high speed internet connections.
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BCG matrix - jw.org production model
by Gorbatchov intoday i read some old mba stuff on my bookshelf.
one of it is about the bcg matrix.. the matrix indicates the state of an business (merely production).
if you place the jw.org in the bcg matrix, the result will be "dogs", sometimes more friendly called "pets".. a business in the category "dogs / pets" is to be sold off / liquidated soon.. that's what we see at this moment by the wtbts / jw.org.
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Today I read some old MBA stuff on my bookshelf. One of it is about the BCG matrix.
The matrix indicates the state of an business (merely production). If you place the jw.org in the BCG matrix, the result will be "dogs", sometimes more friendly called "pets".
A business in the category "dogs / pets" is to be sold off / liquidated soon.
That's what we see at this moment by the wtbts / jw.org. They have no growth and no cash flow.
The cashflow from the selling of buildings is a one-off benefit.
It's a decline business. They are liquidating the old production model, the printing business.
The status of the organization today could be the Cash Cow state at his last, with the continuously milking of money, cash and assets and in a transformation to a "dogs / pets" fase, when the organization has retreated into the hills of the Hudson area.
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Peer presure to use Ipad
by Gorbatchov inearlier this season i advised my retired father to ignore the use of a tablet during his kingdom hall congregational visits.
his response was hopefull, but between the lines i could hear he had no choice.. yesterday he showed me his new 600 euro 64 gb ipad air 2. he had no clue what he has to do with it, he told me one of the elders will install the jw.org apps.. so, i feel he had to deal with presure to buy this ipad and i think he is not the only one.. do you recognize this?.
gorby.
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Yes, it's very sad. The elderly, most of them living with small budget, feel the pressure to buy a costly heavy device.
It reminds me when I was a young boy and did field service in the early 80's with my father. The door opened, and there was a householder so angry, angry to us, the steam came out of his ears. My father asked him, why are you so angry? The householder told us that when his elderly mother died recently, he found a room full of Society's publications and magazines. He said "Your believe pushed my mother to buy those publications in the kingdom hall and they pushed here to raise the quotum. It cost here thousands and thousands of money and she had to store it in house".
In no time we will have now relatives who are that angry because the Society pressed their 98 year old grandfather to buy a Ipad Pro 128 GB for the use 3 jw.org apps.
It's typical sect behavior. "Mother" tells buy this and that and the flock will follow, because of pressure.
They have no alternative, because you have to fill in the field service report about how many times you used your tablet in the ministry. Publications are released in pdf / EPUB only so what can you do?
I'm out since 2008 and don't recognize this religion anymore.
Last week, near the Supermarket, I walked into 2 elderly witnesses. They said "Hello" and I thought, let's doing the Christmas idea so I crossed the street for them. I asked "How are you" and they answered quietly "We are getting older, but we are ok. We have much contact with our children, because we have facetime now". I told them, stay ok and take care! They liked the little chat, even they now i'm a fader. (they did not the we miss you so much-thing).
Gorby
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Peer presure to use Ipad
by Gorbatchov inearlier this season i advised my retired father to ignore the use of a tablet during his kingdom hall congregational visits.
his response was hopefull, but between the lines i could hear he had no choice.. yesterday he showed me his new 600 euro 64 gb ipad air 2. he had no clue what he has to do with it, he told me one of the elders will install the jw.org apps.. so, i feel he had to deal with presure to buy this ipad and i think he is not the only one.. do you recognize this?.
gorby.
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Earlier this season I advised my retired father to ignore the use of a tablet during his Kingdom hall congregational visits. His response was hopefull, but between the lines I could hear he had no choice.
Yesterday he showed me his new 600 euro 64 gb Ipad Air 2. He had no clue what he has to do with it, He told me one of the elders will install the jw.org apps.
So, I feel he had to deal with presure to buy this Ipad and I think he is not the only one.
Do you recognize this?
Gorby
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Yearbook 2016
by Gorbatchov instil no 2016 yearbook on jw.org, due to my fade i forgot the normal publishing date.
do you remember when the yearbook was released?
i'm just curious about the 2015 publisher data.
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Security department
by Gorbatchov inworking regularly at my firm hq, i have close contact with the firm's security department.
it's a real behind the screen business, from securing the management to audit procedures.. my real question: has the wts a security department?
i read a lot about the crucial departments being not accessible for regular wts personal and members.
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Working regularly at my firm HQ, I have close contact with the firm's Security department. It's a real behind the screen business, from securing the management to audit procedures.
My real question: has the WTS a security department? I read a lot about the crucial departments being not accessible for regular WTS personal and members.
It's not strange, because a GB member stand for a lot of money (more since the press story's about the recent HQ on the market for 1 bilion dollar).
So, is there a security department, are there security managers and body guards?
Gorby
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2012 New York Olympic nomination has a correlation with WTS property management
by Gorbatchov ini told earlier that i have a longtime contact with a friendly and valuable non-witness insider in the jw-leadership.
our contact has lead to friendship.
i had some fun and it was remarkable to see some reactions on this board, that there are no non-witness insiders.
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I told earlier that I have a longtime contact with a friendly and valuable non-witness insider in the JW-leadership. Our contact has lead to friendship. I had some fun and it was remarkable to see some reactions on this board, that there are no non-witness insiders. I can assure you, there are.
Not long ago, we spoke about the WTS property management. About the financial trouble.
Donations are halting and abuse settlements are increasing. About the property management I am informed that there is a correlation with the 2012 New York Olympic nominations.
WTS has made and offered big plans for housing the atletes and olympic guest in their vacancy property, if New York would get the Olympic nomination in 2012. Of course for financial reasons. They even halted the selling off these buildings prior to the nomination proces. When the nomination got to London, the property came on the market.
It's one of the insider story's that not became public yet.
Gorby
