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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

Instead of custom Macs for dozens of different customer bases, Jobs laid down the rules that the company would focus on four products: One desktop model and one portable model for the personal consumer market and the business market. And until 2001, that was it. Part of this was the design.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20 th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance.