But Honeywell may have been a bad place to begin, Morgridge says. We never made the first year of the plan. It was an exercise in something, but I'm not sure what. He stayed at Honeywell until 1980, then moved to Stratus Computers, where he served as marketing vice president. In 1986 he was hired as president of Grid.
Companies have personalities.
That was Grid. And something had always happened. A supplier crapped out. The government put a 100 percent duty on flat plasma screens. It was endless.