Comment on Response to ?A case of don?t kill the messenger? by Ronald Damhof

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I think my tweet initially was that ‘the establishment was not happy’. And they were not – Stephen got burned big time and it was shamefull. I hold Stephen in high regard – he really knows his stuff, wrote some classic books etc..

He took on Forrester head on when they wrote about his expertise.The response of Forrester was simply something like ‘I have 30 year experience, how dare you…’. He was in his right to respond. And please, if you tend to disagree with someone it is hard to distinguish between the person and the sh*t he’s writing. So Stephen went for the ball and took the person with him…but in that order.

In the analyst commmunity nearly ALL took side…the side of forrester (source:twitter). For me, that was quite a shock. That ‘thought leaders’ took the side of the big analyst firm and did not went for the real arguments was quite a shock to me…..

Two exceptions; Mark Madsen and Neil Raden, where Neil Raden wrote the above post. I bow to these giants.



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