Was the Keithley Instruments Santa Rosa formed by the Spectrum Analyzer experts who left Agilent about December 2002?

For more than a decade many of US companies’ actions show short term accounting that sacrifices long term strength. Perhaps this is driven from the forces developing through competition and finance.

I just skimmed Michael Malone’s book Bill & Dave. Being somewhat idealistic, I want to accept his point that the good practices of the last century still have merit. The below is copied from the publisher’s comments.

Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
by Michael S. Malone
… a culture of innovation led HP to unparalleled success for decades. He also shows what was really behind the groundbreaking management philosophy the HP Way that put people ahead of products or profits.
There have been attempts in recent years to discredit the HP Way as soft and outdated. But Malone argues that the HP Way was a hard-nosed business philosophy that combined simple objectives, trust in employees to make the right choices, and ruthless self-appraisal. It created an innovative and ferociously competitive company arguably the world’s greatest company.

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