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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
has to improvise.
Ted Turner • Call Me Ted
never let the facts get in the way of a fair outcome.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
Steve Wallach gave the speech he had once dreaded, describing Eagle’s architecture to a jury of peers, at a meeting of a society of computer professionals, and when he was done, they got up and applauded—“the ultimate reward,” he said.
Tracy Kidder • The Soul of A New Machine
The journalist does not feel guilty for not having prevented the crash. That was someone else’s job.
Steve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)
When people proposed a short-term solution, Page’s instinct was to think
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The passenger was deemed paramount; every employee’s paycheck bore the words, “From our customers.”
Thomas Petzinger Jr. • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Some of the engineers closest to West suspected that if he weren’t given a crisis to deal with once in a while, he would create one. To them he seemed so confident and happy in an emergency.