Wrong Turn Is Often Fatal In Computer Business
August 1, 1997The phenomenal pace of change in the computer industry creates a business environment as unforgiving as the Sierra Nevada was to 19th-Century emigrants. Getting lost for even a little while can put a company at grave risk of a lingering, unpleasant death. Apple Computer Inc. is the latest to demonstrate this principle, and it was evident well before the ouster earlier this summer of Gilbert Amelio as the company’s third …
Coping With Good Times
August 1, 1997To those of us who came of age between the eras of Vietnam and David Stockman, economic doom has always lurked just around the corner. LBJ’s guns-and-butter inflation, Nixon’s price controls, Ford’s WIN buttons, Carter’s sky-high interest rates and Reagan’s soaring deficits blend together, a seamless memory of bad news. As the saying went, “Been down so long, it looks like up to me.” Despite some best-selling books predicting its …
How Now, Sacred Cow? Tax Rules To Beef About
August 1, 1997Finding goofy rules in the tax code is a game everyone can play. Sure, there are plenty of ways the government sticks it to unwary taxpayers. We listed some in our last issue (“Ten Tax Rules Guaranteed to Drive You Crazy“, Sentinel May 1997). But lots of other provisions let taxpayers with the right political demographics off the hook when broader policy needs might argue otherwise. Is it fair to …
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