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Jeremy Stern • The Visions of Neil Mehta
Goldman Sachs: “You learn from day one around here that we gang-tackle problems. If your ego won’t permit that, you won’t be effective here.”2
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Companies started to keep vendor histories and records of product performance.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Driven and often intimidating to underlings, Covey became an intellectual foil to Bezos and a key architect of Amazon’s early expansion.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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A young reporter for the Post named Tom Wolfe followed up after my talk with an interview. The Post ran his story, “You Can So Beat the Gambling House at Blackjack, Math Expert Insists.” He was curious rather than skeptical, sympathetic but probing. Wolfe later became one of America’s most famous authors.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
Scientific Theory of Management by Frederick Taylor,