Focusing Innovation vs. Fostering Innovation
Jobs’ greatest contributions at Apple have likely been to kill or sideline a lot of good projects in order to focus the company’s efforts and resources on only the most exceptional ones. In contrast, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have apparently thrown every product concept within Microsoft at the market to see which will make a splash. The result has been a sky-darkening volley of absurd failures from Redmond, and an impressive series of home runs from Cupertino.
In my continuing efforts to learn about management, entrepreneurship, and business — the above quote is quite possibly the most intelligent way you can make that point. (source)
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