Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

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Overview

The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business—Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs on leadership, strategy and execution.

In less than a decade, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Andy Grove founded three companies that would define the world of technology and transform our lives. At their peaks, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel were collectively worth some $1.5 trillion. Strategy Rules examines these three individuals collectively for the first time—their successes and failures, commonalities and differences—revealing the business strategies and practices they pioneered while building their firms.

David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano have studied these three leaders and their companies for more than thirty years, while teaching business strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship at Harvard and MIT. In this enlightening guide, they show how Gates, Grove, and Jobs approached strategy and execution in remarkably similar ways—yet markedly differently from their erstwhile competitors—keeping their focus on five strategic rules.

Strategy Rules brings together the best practices in strategic management and high-tech entrepreneurship from three path-breaking entrepreneurs who emerged as CEOs of huge global companies. Their approaches to formulating strategy and building organizations offer unique insights for start-up executives as well as the heads of modern multinationals.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781094156651
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 05/05/2020
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professors David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano are the authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time.

Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and is the longest-serving member of the Intel board of directors. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books and has written extensively for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review.

Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, with a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of eleven books, including the classic bestseller Microsoft Secrets and Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World.


Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, with a joint appointment in the MIT Engineering Systems Division. He specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in the computer software industry, as well as automobiles and consumer electronics.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction: The Making of a Master Strategist 1

Chapter 1 Look Forward, Reason Back 23

Chapter 2 Make Big Bets, Without Betting the Company 61

Chapter 3 Build Platforms and Ecosystems-Not Just Products 93

Chapter 4 Exploit Leverage and Power- Play Judo and Sumo 131

Chapter 5 Shape the Organization around Your Personal Anchor 165

Conclusion: Lessons for the Next Generation 199

Notes 217

Index 239

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