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Contrarian Thinking: Extra! Extra!      Conventional wisdom says
that only the lean will survive in the current business climate.
But can a company actually be too thin to get rich?
Contrarian Thinking      Several years ago I helped found a
company that was going to revolutionize the way the
architectural and engineering communities would do business. At
a time when computer-aided design was just coming in, we had a
software and hardware package that was going to be faster and
cheaper than anything else then available.      Somewhere along
the line, though, our grand vision got small. We went from
trying to change the world with innovative products to being
just another local reseller and computer consultant. How did
that happen? Why am I now a university professor and not a
semiretired philanthropist and angel investor living off the
profits from my successful IPO?      Our skills and talents
aside, we made a critical error by running the o