The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

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

Only the paranoid survive.

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.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.