#208 Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett
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The Professor asked with a wide grin. So you want to write a book on high tech CEOs? Well, gentlemen, it's a long shot. A huge long shot. And besides
No CEO knows why he's successful. It's all just luck. Coming from a well known strategic management professor, a comment such as this seems somewhat ridiculous. For successful management we're all lucky Then why are we taking his class?
Why, for that matter, were we in business school at all? Surely successful management was not entirely due to luck. There had to be some successful strategy and ideas at play too. Louis Pastor once said that chance favors the prepared mind. If chance is a major factor in a company's success, as our professor believed,
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