Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
Make mistakes faster.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.