Taking aim at financial metrics like RONA, Hart-Smith said the answer was not merely to dispose of assets. A far better response, he said, “would be to develop and sell new products that could be produced profitably with the same equipment and personnel.” He appended an author’s note that amounted to an epic troll, saying the views were his alone and not those of the management: “Conversely,” he wrote, “the visible policies of the management are not necessarily those that the author would have recommended, had he been asked.”
