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...answer that question, we need to look to the history of invention and to the notoriously difficult study of the diffusion of innovations. Often lost in the study of such things is the fact that for every Model T, Apple Macintosh or DVD, there are 10 failures, like the Edsel, the Commodore 64 and the Laserdisc. By analyzing the path that successful technologies take to acceptance and the roadblocks that stymie the failures, we can at least hazard a guess about the Segway...
...each other on the top floor of the company's green glass World Headquarters building, but one look at them gives away the stark differences between Ford and Nasser. Ford's is warm and wood paneled, plastered with pictures of his family and himself. Practically everything--except his grandfather Edsel's desk--is recyclable, and tropical fish swim in a tank on one wall...
...most accounts, Ford fought for almost everything he has at the company. When Bill and his cousin Edsel were appointed to the board in 1988, he fought off demands that he stop dealing with environmental groups. CEO Don Petersen refused to let either Ford serve on any board committees. Even when he was named chairman, Ford was taunted as "Prince William" by outgoing chief executive Trotman. "I had to decide whether to get in the dirt and wrestle or walk away," Ford recalls. He chose to rumble. "I'm a very competitive person, and it made me mad. I wasn...
...take it, though, even after watching the Cardinals fall apart more times than an Edsel, crashing and burning in five games...
...tastelessness." Walt's plans for an "organic" Fantasia, one that would be revived every year with new sequences replacing some old ones, were dropped. It was not until a 1968 reissue, when hippies flocked to it as a head movie, that Fantasia shook off its rep as Walt's Edsel. The success of its 1991 video release persuaded the company to bankroll a freshened version, under the supervision of Walt's nephew...