How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

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.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.

Only the paranoid survive.