Today's thoughts are about why HP way is no more. Again, my experience is only with HP, but there is Apple, Google, Tesla, Amazon --- each company has its own culture and the way to manage people.
HP Way was heavily dependent on the constant influx of new products in the product line. This allowed the company to keep their employees busy, be profitable and pay back to employees for their loyalty. I have no idea how Bill and Dave handled it before the calculator/printer time.
This is not easy to attain and the management needs to be very technical, and also well connected to the rest of the industrial world and perhaps also to the government and defense (which was the case with Bill and Dave). This is/was definitely not the case at HP from about 2000 on.
Perhaps it is not even feasible anymore in the US on the hardware side as US is no longer the technology hub. Not sure how the software companies (Microsoft, Google) are handling it. Thus I was under impression that Microsoft was completely out of ideas of where to go before the Artificial Intelligence Boom. Google seems to be the same way but with some delay.
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