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title: 'Almost Perfect: How a Bunch of Regular Guys Built WordPerfect Corporation'
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<b>Author:</b> W.E. Pete Peterson</br>
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<h3>Review:</h3>
<p>Let's see... death marches, a company that proudly explains the employees that it doesn't care at all about their happiness or future, and that they will never get promoted.<br /><br />The CEO explaining that coming to work with "a bad attitude" should be grounds for dismissal without compensation, or that congratulating someone on the birth of a son is improper use of company time.<br /><br />These guys chose wrong every time they had to make a strategic decision, and were unsympathetic hardasses to boot, but got lucky half a dozen times when their competitors self-destructed, or simply didn't care about the market, and rode a wave of coincidence and slapstick to the top of the anthill.<br /><br />All things considered, a fine manual on how not to run a company, written by the guy that ran one. <br /><br />That said company was extremely succesful (for a decade!) is perhaps the best part. Had they been even half competent at their job, they would probably still exist.<br /></p>
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