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June 27, 2008
Orrin Woodward wants Amway to confront reality
By Truth in Amway
Today I read an article over at Orrin Woodward's blog titled "Amway/Quixtar North America - Confronting Brutal Reality". In a nutshell Orrin goes through some numbers and other data to come to the conclusion that Amway/Quixtar has actually declined in sales since 1980. This of course is summed up to the leadership at Amway and the conclusion that they are not facing the reality of their broken business model.
At the end of the article Orrin gives Amway some "free advice" and has some comments that I found to be stinging:
"Judging by the sales of Amway North America, I believe that the Amway managers are receiving poor grades on their leadership competence. If Dick Devos believes he has the ability to run the state of Michigan as Governor, then I would recommend that he prove it on his beloved Amway business first. It would make Dick’s message more palatable to the Michigan voters. The Amway managers are welcome in advance for this free advice."
For me personally the icing on the cake for this article was the schooling job he did on one commenter by the name IBOFightback aka "Insider", or as Orrin called him "David Fightback". Insider didn't stick around too long.
UPDATE: Thanks to Imran I noticed that Orrin has blocked links from this site. Interesting to say the least, I have asked him what the deal was.
UPDATE: Orrin has responded below in a comment regarding his blog blocking links from this site. In a nutshell he doesn't know why, and is going to have it taken care of. Thanks Orrin.