First of all, why would you post a link that has absolutely no record of your claim that Dilbert left AAPL in the 90-92 time frame??
It is called reading between the lines. No explicit start and dates are provided, but the following provide the boundries:
Prior to joining Inprise in 1996
Upper bound on tektronix stay is mid 1996.
...increase new product revenues[at Tektronix]from 22 percent in 1991 to 50 percent in 1994
Lower bound on tektronix stay is 1991.
Tek's chart show's their share price improvement starting around the beginning of 1991, and as these things don't happen right away it is reasonable to assume that Yocam may have been there for a few quarters before things got rolling, which means potentially sometime in 1990.
If you want to complain about the accuracy of the document I'm using to get a general timeline, please cite something with harder numbers in it.
As for When a disastrous COO puts disastrous plans into effect, we generally don't know they are disastrous for a year or two.
So, Apple's fall was all Yocam's fault, and that over a year after he left? Check your history. Apple had two problems - Newton was a big money loser from day one and that was all Sculley's doing and the Mac line had far too much internal overlap which was primarily a marketing problem, not an operations issue.
As a rule in most industries, executives don't bail on a company they've screwed up until their failures are so apparent that they must perform seppuku. Examples include John Sculley, Chainsaw Al and Phillipe Khan. At both Apple and Tektronix, Yocam left operations that were reasonably healthy after having been at least partially responsible for some decent levels of recovery and growth.
Bitching that Yocam has always been and will always be a screw-up is merely looking back at history through the tint of today's stock price. In other words, sour grapes. |
