The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)

Later, when HP was already a big company, the founders maintained their open-minded approach. The company innovated and grew by making what Hewlett called “small bets” on products and markets that didn’t exist yet. The company’s centralized management layer allocated people and resources between these bets to ensure the promising ones would continu... See more

• We will continue to focus relentlessly on our customers.• We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability considerations or short-term Wall Street reactions. • We will continue to measure our programs and the effectiveness of our investments analytically, to... See more

Livingston: Is there anything that Adobe does now to preserve the efficiency or the "startupyness" of a young company? Geschke: It gets harder as you get bigger. What John and I have tried to do as chairs of the board is to reinforce to the current CEO, Bruce Chizen, the importance of innovation and the importance of taking some of the in

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