Mr Drucker's classic 1946 portrait of General Motors, "Concept of the Corporation", barely mentions shareholders at all: the managers ran the company as if it were their own.
But so do Elmo and the "Sesame Street" gang, not to mention Intel shareholders.
The protesters started rather tamely, sarcastically clapping the mention of "shareholders" and pumping their fists in the air when Mr Olver spoke of the company "going forward".
Creating more competitive enterprises through domestic consolidation would be better for the country in the long run — not to mention for shareholders, who are too often an afterthought in Japan.
Imagine how hard it would be for the deal sharks at News Corporation and Time Warner, not to mention Yahoo shareholders, to conclude that they were not being take advantage of in a three way deal.
Whether Mr. Case and his colleagues at AOL knew that they were getting a far better deal than Time Warner was, the merger has left a lot of bad feelings in the company, not to mention among shareholders.
For the sake of posterity, not to mention his shareholders, it seems self-defeating to refuse Karmazin the operating power that the president has said he will require to stay on at the company.
But fortunately for Nortel's management, not to mention its shareholders, somewhere in the bowels of this behemoth are a bunch of engineers who know how to build the most-powerful optical networking equipment on the planet.
Indeed, the company is said to have paused the listing process, which it started in early October, for a time so choppy are the waters right now — and that's not even mentioning a shareholder-led lawsuit that was filed last week.
I mention Verizon because shareholders will also get to vote on a shareholder resolution calling for a change in the system.
