, Columnist
Tech Kings' Greatest Enemy Is in the Mirror
With great power comes the great risk of mismanagement.
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When past technology companies have been overthrown, it tended to be at the hands of rivals or by the proverbial two guys in a garage. Tech titans DEC, Sun Microsystems and BlackBerry were felled by technology changes and their failures to keep up with agile newcomers.
Today's technology rulers are less likely to be dethroned by outside invaders than they are by their own mistakes.