This permitted them to retain many of the best employees, do less destructive "reorganization" and acquire some good employees let go by other companies-- and some good companies as well. As the old Mel Brooks movie goes, "It is good to be king." For the past two years, since his accession to the top job at ABB, Joe Hogan has been pursuing a critical reorganization that is called, internally, One ABB. With the addition of the strongly managed, and partly employee owned Baldor, it will be interesting to see the progress of One ABB. Depending on who you talk to, it is either going very well now, or not so well. We shall certainly see. One thing is certain: this gives ABB a leg up on the rest of the automation companies in achieving an integrated plant control system.