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...major leap forward for Verizon Wireless, this is the carrier's first phone to combine true voice recognition with a speakerphone and wireless connectivity for headsets...
...back in the game against IBM. Burroughs had fallen so far behind that it found itself utterly dwarfed by its larger rival. Burroughs' solution? Undertake the then largest merger in computer history: buy Sperry Corp. and create a new company--dubbed Unisys--as a single-step leap to greatness...
...Great, a member of my research team spent 10 weeks focusing on a single question: What role do big mergers and acquisitions play in creating exceptional results? He uncovered a striking fact: not a single company that qualified as having made a sustained transformation in our study ignited its leap with a big acquisition or merger...
Moreover, comparison companies--those that failed to make a leap or, if they did, failed to sustain it--often tried to make themselves great with a big, hairy audacious merger or acquisition. It never worked. They failed to grasp the simple truth that while you can buy your way to growth, you cannot buy your way to greatness. Two big mediocrities joined together never make one great company...
...They changed the way that I looked at understanding history,” Bennett said. “It was very easy...to make the leap to documentary journalism and its importance in influencing how people see the world. I apply those lessons almost every...