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"I always ask why you do things... nobody knows why they... "
Q. How to run business?
A.
1. be a curious person “In business, … if you are willing to ask a lot of questions and think about things and work really hard, you can learn businesses pretty fast not the hardest thing in the world.”
2. learn how to program
“I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer. Should learn a computer language because it teaches you how to think.”
3. help people have vested interest in your product
“... a lot of other people had a very strong vested interest in helping IBM make it better so if it’s just been up to IBM they would have been crashed and burned but IBM did have I think a genius in their approach which was to have a lot of other people have a vested interest in their success and that’s what saved them in the end.”
4. manage content people well
“People get confused that the process is the content that’s the ultimate downfall of IBM. IBM had the best processed people in the world. They just forgot about the content. And that’s what happened a little bit at Apple, too. We had a lot of people who were great at management process. They just didn’t have a clue as to the content. And in my career, I found that the best people you know are the ones that really understand the content and they are pain in the butt to manage but you put up with it because they are so great at the content and that’s what makes great products. It’s not process it’s content.”
5. don’t care about being wrong just get it right
“I don’t care about being right. I just care about success. So you will find a lot of people that will tell you that I had a very strong opinion and they presented evidence to the contrary and five minutes later and I completely changed my mind because I’m like that I don’t mind being wrong. I’ll admit that I’m wrong a lot. It doesn’t matter to me that much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.”
