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Motorola is maybe a telling of how complacency and pure business leadership can lead to a downfall. They became complacent, they abandoned their technical lead
by bfrog 5y ago
Motorola is maybe a telling of how complacency and pure business leadership can lead to a downfall.
They became complacent, they abandoned their technical leadership for bean counters, and became dust.
Intel was almost going down that road.
- cestith 5y agoMotorola probably started slowly downhill after Lear left and Wavering retired.
- davidf560 5y agoI suppose it depends on how you define "downfall", but Motorola stock this year is at an all-time high, even higher than its peak during late 90s during the run up to the dot-com boom and when Motorola cellphones were king. There's been some very hard years in between and it's a smaller company now, but it's actually doing very well by many standards.
- caoilte 5y agoNot sure Intel have escaped that fate yet. Ditto Boeing.