“If the 1980s were about quality 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly the nature of business will change. About how quickly business itself will be transacted.”
Bill Gates
Business @ the Speed of Thought (Primary source)
Business @ the Speed of Thought, co-authored with Collins Hemingway, is Bill Gates’ second major book and his most sustained argument for how digital technology should reshape the internal workings of a company.
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— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“If you want to change behaviors, you have to change motivations.”
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