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    Cover of Strategy rules

    Strategy rules

    David B. Yoffie · 2015

    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.

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    What Hacker News says

    1. bwh2Jul 2023
      A few books that influenced my product thinking: The Cold Start Problem, Working Backwards, and Strategy Rules.
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    2. bwh2Jun 2021
      I enjoyed these books:

      * Strategy Rules

      * How Google Works

      * Founders at Work

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    3. bwh2Apr 2021
      Specifically to your question of defining the best features, goals, and products, I recommend these books:

      * 20 YC Lessons

      * Outcomes Over Output (a lightweight version of The Lean Startup)

      * Strategy Rules

      * How Google Works

      Here's the rest of my Product Manager book reviews: https://www.briansnotes.io/audience/product-manager/

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    4. my5thaccountMar 2016
      Zero to One by Peter Thiel

      The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

      Strategy Rules - Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs by David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano

      These are all timely books and recently written.

      thread

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