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They attribute all Microsoft's missteps to Gates-bad PR, bad legal strategy, underestimation of the Internet-and infer that Gates must have been bad at everything Ballmer is good at: administration, finding new revenue sources, and avoiding bad investments.
These early missteps made other countries unwilling to freeze assets or otherwise act merely on the basis of a U.S. action.
Renfro offers up the "dead-eyed sang-froid only a 16-year-old suburbanite can pull off" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), and McKellen is called "a supremely gifted actor at the top of his form" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film is said to be uneven, though, and when you add directorial missteps to the uncomfortable subject matter, the result is pans mixed with queasily laudatory reviews.
But as the recent return to center stage of cable pioneer John Malone, head of TCI, suggests, the cable industry has never been healthier, despite having committed a rather staggering array of strategic missteps in the past few years.
My radar readily picks up, even magnifies, his distortions and confusions, but is less sensitive to my own missteps.