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[Collaborative Genius]

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When you look at partnerships, first you [br]think of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

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Steve Jobs, a great marketer, the person[br]with the design sense, and the flare.

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Wozniak, who could take very very few microchips[br]and make an amazing circuit out of it.

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You always need to team people who have great[br]vision with people who know how to execute things.

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That's even true of the original computers.[br]People like Presper Eckert, a great engineer,

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working with a visionary like John Mauchly.

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These names aren't know to as many people,[br]because they weren't single individuals

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that you could carve on a pantheon,[br]or put on a magazine cover.

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They were usually teams[br]of people who worked together.

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Every now and then you run into an innovator[br]who did not know how to collaborate.

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Somebody like John Atanasoff,[br]out in Iowa State.

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He was sitting there in a basement,[br]trying to build a computer

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with just one graduate student helping him.

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And he never was able to get[br]the punch card burners to work,

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and after he gets drafted into the Navy, [br]the machine just sits there in the basement

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until somebody finally throws it away.

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So, if you don't have that team around you,[br]if you are unable to execute,

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you get consigned to the dustbin of history.

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A great team is one that has [br]many players who can play many positions,

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just like a baseball team.

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If you look at the founders of the United States,[br]you had passionate people, like John Adams

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and his cousin Samuel; you had really smart[br]people, like Jefferson and Madison;

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and you had people of great rectitude,[br]like George Washington;

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and, finally, somebody like Ben Franklin, who [br]could be the glue who holds them all together.

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And that, to me, is a type of team that's[br]replicated, whether it's Intel,

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with Gordon Moore, and Robert Noyce,[br]and Andy Grove;

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or Bell Labs, which has wonderful people who[br]can do things like be information scientists

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as well as pole climbers with [br]grease under their fingernails

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all working together as a team.

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So, when you look at the teams that created[br]the great innovations of the digital age,

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it was usually not just one type of person,

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but a team that could pull together[br]with many types of talents.

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[Walter Isaacson — The Innovators]