Article: Fishman: Wariness from the gut

When Richard P. Fishman left his high-flying Washington job to become president of Thinking Machines Corp., his wife and children did not make the move to Cambridge.

Something in Fishman's gut made him wary of the $90 million computer company. As senior partner of one of the nation's most prestigious law firms, he rarely worked with a company with less than $5 billion in annual sales.

Still, Fishman made the move. "I probably was having something of a midlife crisis. I was at the top of my profession, making a lot of money -- and it was kind of boring."

Now, the midlife crisis seems more palatable than the cash crisis that awaited him.

Only when he arrived, Fishman said yesterday, did he ...

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