Editorial Reviews
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life’s work–not at business school or leading Microsoft’s charge into Asia in the 1990s–but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands [...]
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…an objective and insightful comparison of China and India. –Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2008
Khanna delivers a dense but lively blend of anecdotes and analysis. He shows how entrepreneurial spirit is transforming both these countries not only economically, but strengthening ties between the two. –Newsweek
The eye [...]
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Hard Drive charts Gates’s missteps as well as his successes: the failure of OS/2 and the embarrassing delays in bringing Windows to the marketplace; the highly publicized split with IBM, which then forged an alliance with Apple to battle Microsoft; the public relations fallout [...]
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“Folks who read this book will be rewarded with an unfair competitive advantage in the marketplace. . .hide it under the newspaper on the airplane!” —Nick Copping, CEO, ZOOM Marketing; former strategist for Global System Integrators, Microsoft “Partnering is in Microsoft’s DNA. Partnering with Microsoft helps you [...]
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“Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts and Hagen Green, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team, decided to share their experience in this book.”
–From the Foreword by Jean Paoli, cocreator [...]
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“Executives who still insist on all work and no game play won’t just be running dull workplaces; they will also be running less profitable ones too.” –The Economist on Changing the Game “Video games are now far from a mere diversion to kill time being amused. This book amply illustrates [...]
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“…a fascinating insight into the organisation…The book has undoubtedly been thoroughly researched and provides a valuable reference.” British Computing Society August 2008 “…this reality check from veteran Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley [is] both welcome and timely.”Information Age July 2008
“The award-winning journalist author has access to [...]
“Executives who still insist on all work and no game play won’t just be running dull workplaces; they will also be running less profitable ones too.” –The Economist on Changing the Game “Video games are now far from a mere diversion to kill time being amused. This book amply illustrates how we [...]
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Advance Praise for Partnering with Microsoft: ‘Partnering with Microsoft is the first great book about the breathtaking culture, opportunity and roadmap for joining Microsoft’s 850,000 partners cutting an impressive B swath in the marketpl [...]
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So where do you want to go tomorrow? That’s the question Bill Gates tries to answer in Business @ the Speed of Thought. Gates offers a 12-step program for companies wanting to do business in the next millennium. The book’s premise: Thanks to technology, the speed of business [...]
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