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...feet,” and abortion activists cringed. I must mention here that I am not one to mince words; thus if my refusal to employ the euphemism “pro-choice” offends you—too bad. When it comes to being “PC,” I’m not. The abortion rights faction no doubt will argue that the employment of “precious feet” pins (which depict, appropriately, a pair of infant feet) is nothing more than a form of sentimental propaganda, an attempt to appeal...
...recession, even a mild one like the one that may now be ending, big companies seem paralyzed by conventional thinking, unable to do the things that set apart leaders from failures. To illustrate this point, I’ll focus on a particularly vulnerable and hard-hit industry: PC vendors. The dismal state of the dominant players in the PC industry and the unusual success of some smaller companies send a clear message: to succeed in business, we would do well to break all the rules...
...chaos even now, eight months after the announcement. Whatever happens, HP and Compaq are two companies whose core products—printers for HP and services and consulting for Compaq—are under attack or not growing. Merging the two to wring some advantage out of their disastrous PC divisions would only further dilute the earnings contribution of their viable divisions. As such, Fiorina’s approach—profits through layoffs, growth through acquisition instead of innovative R & D—represents the worst possible strategy for resurrecting Hewlett Packard, a strategy that will probably...
Michael Dell, CEO of the eponymous PC maker, has prospered by being the cause of HP and Compaq’s woes. Dell builds and ships its PCs directly to customers, taking most orders through its web site and avoiding sales channels, large parts inventories (which decline in value by the hour) and anything that might drag it down. Dell’s “direct” approach enables it to make money virtually no matter what a PC costs; thus, Dell launched a major price war last year to gain market share and force its competitors into...
Some will ask why its useful to harp on two paragraphs that seem largely inconsistent with more than 200 pages of writing. Why pick apart some 20 lines of kitsch when there is more substantive analysis elsewhere? As children of the PC, love-people-for-what’s-on-the-inside era, how can we commit the egregious act of actually judging a book by its cover...