A CEO's (Jim Manzi) arrognace with the press at the Signal launch. "I've prepared answers for your questions, yes, no, yes, no, no, yes." Also his well-known comment when presented with ideas at meetings: "Well that's a blinding flash of the obvious."
Find the "Fish is rotten at the head" story in the Boston Globe.
See "It can happen here" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23322056/the-boston-globe/
Here's the org structure I remember: https://archive.org/stream/computerworld2126unse/computerworld2126unse_djvu.txt
"In fact, Boston Globe columnist
Alex Beam wrote a piece in 1988
tided "The Fish Rots at the
Head" arguing that Lotus was
suffering greatly under Manzi.
For a time, Lotus refused to talk
to the Globe, a decision Manzi
ended up making several times. "
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