The book Strategies of Geniuses: Five Most Important Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs by Michael Cusumano, David Yoffe

How to Become a Great Strategist? Gates, Grove, and Jobs were the first “business stars” in the modern world of technology. Analyzing their thirty years of experience managing companies with a combined value of $1.5 trillion—Microsoft, Intel, and Apple—the authors of this book have formulated five basic rules that turned out to be common in the strategic planning of these market giants and allowed them to get ahead of competitors who neglected these principles. These rules helped the iPhone cell phone to advance far beyond industrial giants Nokia and BlackBerry, the tiny Seattle company Microsoft to prevail over its main customer—at that time the most valuable company in the world, IBM, and the almost bankrupt Intel company to defeat the Japanese, Koreans, and Europeans in the struggle for world leadership in a revolutionary new technology—the production of microprocessors.

This book is a guide to the best pages of strategic planning, management, and practical experience that will allow anyone to become an effective strategist.