Shared Experiences
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft. He believes it’s vitally important to be on the lookout for new ideas, new trends and new challenges:
‘You have to have your feelers out at all times, for example, in the technical field having great relations with universities to see what they’re doing, what they’re thinking about, but also reaching out to the leading people and getting them to critique your strategy, making sure that you’re not being insular about those things. It’s very important because something that’s small now can turn into something very large over a period of years and if you wait until it gets large before you say, oh, okay we should do that too, then you’re probably too late to adapt your strategy in that direction. ...
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