Let Chaos Reign, Then Rein In Chaos.

You Need To Plan The Way A Fire Department Plans: It Cannot Anticipate Where The Next Fire Will Be, So It Has To Shape An Energetic And Efficient Team That Is Capable Of Responding To The Unanticipated As Well As To Any Ordinary Event.

Whatever Success We Have Had In Maintaining Our Culture Has Been Instrumental In Intel's Success In Surviving Strategic Inflection Points.

I Think Amazon Is The Preeminent Pioneer In Building A New Way Of Doing Commerce: Personalized, Database-driven Commerce, Where The Big Value Is Not In The Purchase Fulfillment, But In Knowing As Much About A Customer Base Of Ten Or Twenty Million People As A Corner Store Used To Know About A Customer Base Of A Few Hundred. In Today's Mass-merchandising World, That's Largely Gone; Amazon Is Trying To Use Computer Technology To Re-establish It.

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I Believe In The Value Of Paranoia. Business Success Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Destruction. The More Successful You Are, The More People Want A Chunk Of Your Business And Then Another Chunk And Then Another Until There Is Nothing Left.