What would be a key performance indicator over tha

What would be a key performance indicator over that four year period?

Another infrequent visit. My friend Barbara Asbell used to day, "the stock flip is back and as usual he graced us by taking a sh*t in the corner of the hallway on the message board."

I expect more of this "the company never executes" and "tell me what management has accomplished" talk as the calendar begins its two week J&J/Lifescan countdown. That's what stock flips do.

And the DECN company management? What's with them? If they were smart, and they are, the last people in the world they should take seriously are stock flips and message board bashers.

And for something completely different.

Word on the street is that J&J desperately wants to sell Lifescan to anyone except a private equity fund. They believe that funds like Platinum have no interest in running Lifescan and are only interested in buying, consolidating, perhaps acquiring another trophy or two (perhaps Agamatrix) and then flipping the parts to European and Far Eastern interests. Nothing wrong with that, except that the private equity fund is low-balling. J&J believes the enterprise value of their (declining) asset is $2.7 billion, but nobody else wants Lifescan (for all the reasons why DECN and some DECN shareholders) hate them.

J&J is trying mightily to put together a management buyout of Lifescan using a combination of existing and former (2001-2011) management. Time is running out. The next sound you hear will be the buzzer to end the game. The next sound you hear will be the gasp when Platinum lowers their offer -- the end of game haircut.