[bfrog]

Motorola is maybe a telling of how complacency and pure business leadership can lead to a downfall.

They became complacent, they abandoned their technical leadership for bean counters, and became dust.

Intel was almost going down that road.

[davidf560]

I suppose it depends on how you define "downfall", but Motorola stock this year is at an all-time high, even higher than its peak during late 90s during the run up to the dot-com boom and when Motorola cellphones were king.

There's been some very hard years in between and it's a smaller company now, but it's actually doing very well by many standards.

[cestith]

Motorola probably started slowly downhill after Lear left and Wavering retired.

[caoilte]

Not sure Intel have escaped that fate yet. Ditto Boeing.