Gordon Bell has an excellent article in ACM Queue about common dysfunctions among tech companies. Three common misbehaviors are dissected: vaporware, field-of-dreams, and the serial startup.
Pathological?
da on 2004-02-19T20:50:21
Reminds me of a movie I want to see: "The Corporation", which discusses the corporation, as a legal entitity similar to a person. It concludes (with tons of evidence) that if a corporation were a human, it would be pathological.
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