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Can someone frame page 32 of "The HP Way" please

After a hard day's work, I am now flipping through the pages of The HP Way. It is a fascinating account By David Packard on how he and Bill Hewlett built HP and one of my all time favourite business books.

I have been involved in brainstorming a few business ideas and is normal, we tend to get lost in details. So I came back home today, after what can be a really exasperating day and went straight to some of my fav pages of this book.

Everytime I read it it leaps at me with this sheer simplicity and practicality.

 

The product ideas we discussed included high-frequency receivers and medical equipment and it was noted that "We should make every attempt to keep up on [the newly announced technology of] television."

 

These are Packard's words describing his meeting with Hewlett on August 23, 1937, which he calls as HP's first meeting.

The part I like about this is: "We should make every attempt to keep up on [the newly announced technology of] television." Now, how many of us really take such a futuristic approach to our business planning. We are all stuck in the "what has worked elsewhere and what can work for us here and now" thought process. Why don't we simply learn from the masters.

It is my belief that as entrepreneurs if we replicate what others have done then we are wasting an opportunity to push the envelope. We owe it to our society to think of the newer possibilities and go where others have not walked before.

 

Well, I know this sounds as grand-standing but let me hear from you some experiences of yours. Ping me with your thoughts now.

 

 

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