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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings ( PDFDrive )(1)

 
The Third Dimension 
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if it is exceedingly well run. The bigger a company is, the harder it is to 
manage efficiently. Quite often the inherent advantages of scale are fully 
balanced or even more than balanced by the inefficiencies produced by 
too many bureaucratic layers of middle management, consequent delays 
in making decisions, and, at times, the seeming inability of top executives 
in the largest companies to know quickly just what needs corrective 
attention in various subdivisions of their far-flung complexes. 
On the other hand, when a company clearly becomes the leader in 
its field, not just in dollar volume but in profitability, it seldom gets dis- 
placed from this position as long as its management remains highly 
competent. As discussed in examining the second dimension of a con- 
servative investment, such a management must retain the ability to
change corporate ways to match the ever-changing external environ- 
ment. There is a school of investment thinking that advocates acquiring 
shares in the number-two or -three company in a field because “these 
can go up to number one, whereas the leader is already there and might 
slip.” There are some industries where the largest company does not 
have a clear leadership position; but, where it does, we emphatically do
not agree with this viewpoint. It has been our observation that, in
many years of trying, Westinghouse has not surpassed General Electric, 
Montgomery Ward has not overtaken Sears, and—once IBM estab- 
lished early dominance in its areas of the computer market—even the
extreme efforts of some of the largest companies in the country, 
including General Electric, did not succeed in displacing IBM from its
overwhelming share of that market. Neither have scores of smaller 
price-cutting suppliers of peripheral equipment been able to displace 
IBM as the main and most profitable operator in that phase of the 
computer industry. 
What enables a company to obtain this advantage of scale in the first 
place? Usually getting there first with a new product or service that 
meets worthwhile demand and backing this up with good enough mar- 
keting, servicing, product improvement, and, at times, advertising to 
keep existing customers happy and coming back for more. This fre-
quently establishes an atmosphere in which new customers will turn to 
the leader largely because that leader has established such a reputation 
for performance (or sound value) that no one is likely to criticize the 
buyer adversely for making this particular selection. In the heyday of the 
attempts of others to cut into IBM’s computer business, no one will ever 
know how many employees of corporations planning to use a computer 



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