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...Silicon Valley guys like to smirk, calling him the Wal-Mart of the tech world. But Michael Dell, 39, is having the last laugh. What started as a $1,000 investment, and was launched in his dorm room at the University of Texas, is today the world's No. 1 computer maker in market share, thanks to a relentless focus on selling direct to the consumer. First came desktops and notebooks, then servers and storage, and now printers and flat-screen TVs. The company racked up $41 billion in sales last year and wants to boost that to $80 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Dell: From College Dorm to Tech Powerhouse | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Scott may be the last Wal-Mart CEO schooled by Sam Walton, the discount Dalai Lama, so it's important that the effervescent, customer-focused culture that "Mr. Sam" created be preserved and communicated as the company expands across China and other global markets. That means empowering employees wherever they are, says Scott: "We cannot grow if we are not a great place to work." --By Bill Saporito

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lee Scott: Walking in Mr. Sam's Footsteps | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...runs Wal-Mart is fond of saying that no one can run the world's largest company, you have to lead it. To CEO H. Lee Scott Jr., 55, that means being a combination talk-show host and taskmaster. Business meetings take place in an auditorium where praise and criticism are meted out with wit and a steely determination to get things right. Like his predecessor, David Glass, Scott is a modest man with a ready supply of pungent remarks. He has been on the receiving end too, as Wal-Mart's critics harp about its low-wage jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lee Scott: Walking in Mr. Sam's Footsteps | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...side effect of being innovative. Jobs has been synonymous with the kind of ingenuity that's at the forefront of the tech industry. Everything his company does is scrutinized, often imitated and sometimes even stolen by competitors. (Windows is the most notable example of the highest form of flattery; Wal-Mart's launch of a download-music site is the most recent.) The mouse, how your computer's desktop acts when you point and click at folders and files, wireless Net connectivity, flat-panel displays and DVD burners--these are just some of the things that Jobs was the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Jobs: The Fountain Of Fresh Ideas | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...communal approach has helped him build the Philippines' equivalent of Wal-Mart Stores. SM Group is a retail giant, with 38,600 employees and annual revenues of $1.7 billion. Despite that success, Sy's children realize that the all-in-the-family management style is becoming outdated. Like so many of Asia's big business clans, a generational shift and the stresses of running an increasingly complex company are forcing the insular Sys to open up more to outsiders. "For my father, the organization is the family," says Sy's eldest daughter Teresita Sy-Coson, known as Tessie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry Sy, SM GROUP, Philippines | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

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