Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book

Post by tmbsundar » Sat, Jul 12, 2014, 9:30 AM UTC

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Check out the Innovator's Solution, the follow up. It explains why most of the profit (ability to charge your costs plus a premium) was dominated in the 90's by OS's, and not by the now notorious disk-drive companies. Gates probably understood this (how to position yourself not be disrupted) and it's why we're all reading his favorite book - which is great by the way.

And for the other side of the coin -- Jill Lepore's "What the Theory of Disruptive Innovation Gets Wrong" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_...

Post by dennisgorelik » Sat, Jul 12, 2014, 8:10 PM UTC

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Building Microsoft cannot have been a low-stress endeavor, and people always remark how quickly Presidents visually age during stressful political times.

I agree that Presidents age over the course of their term. But there are many differences between being Potus and the head of Microsoft. President is a short term job (in general) and it is entered into later in life after I would guess a less stressful (than being President that is) life. Gates started Microsoft when young and grew into the job over time. Not to mention that being the captain of that ship is greatly…