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Issue 78

January 2004

If He's So Smart...

  • The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple's sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation?

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  • The Corporate Shrink

    Making the most of management-training seminars and conference calls.

  • CEO See-Ya!

    Mark P. Bulriss, CEO of Great Lakes Chemical Corp.

Fast Talk

  • Fast Talk: Hail, global citizens!

    Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. Given that, we wonder: What are its responsibilities to the rest of the world? And how do companies act on those responsibilities?

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  • Between The Lines

    The stories behind this issue's stories.

  • The Net/Net

    A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue

From the Editor

  • A Visionary and His Limits

    Like many of our readers, I am an unabashed Steve Jobs fan. The cofounder of Apple Computer is not only a seminal figure in business but also a visionary, a dreamer, and one of the world's great product innovators. And I am a direct beneficiary of his genius. At home, I work and play on one of the best-designed computers ever made: an iMac. At work, I write and edit on an Apple PowerBook and use one of Jobs's flat-panel cinema screens as a monitor. In between, I'm plugged into an iPod, listening to Coldplay, Martin Sexton, and Frank Sinatra.