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Yet the ultimate test of a great company is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to recover from setbacks—even self-inflicted wounds—stronger than before.
David Packard • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
Jon Rubinstein, who was in charge of hardware, adapted the microprocessor and guts of the PowerMac G3, Apple’s high-end professional computer, for use in the proposed new machine. It would have a hard drive and a tray for compact disks, but in a rather bold move, Jobs and Rubinstein decided not to include the usual floppy disk drive. Jobs quoted th
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Jane Manning of Google Lea Hickman of Adobe Alex Pressland of the BBC Martina Lauchengco of Microsoft Kate Arnold of Netflix Camille Hearst of Apple
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Innovator's Dilemma
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WHEN I THINK OF the phenomenal growth of the electronics industry over the last fifty years, I realize how fortunate Bill Hewlett and I were to be in on the ground floor. But it reminds me of a story I like to tell on myself. In my sophomore year at Stanford I took a course in American history and had the opportunity to study the westward movement
... See moreDavid Packard • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
Pierce, to put it simply, was asking himself: What about Bell Labs’ formula was timeless? In his 1997 list, he thought it boiled down to four things: A technically competent management all the way to the top. Researchers didn’t have to raise funds. Research on a topic or system could be and was supported for years. Research could be terminated with
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Engineers—bottom-of-the-org-chart people—could come up with the ideas that would be the next hot products for the company. Everything was open to thought, discussion, and innovation. So I would never leave Hewlett-Packard. I was going to be an engineer for life there.