The Ultimate Entrepreneur
OCLC 18350498 | | |
The biographical book, The ultimate entrepreneur: the story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation, chronicles the experiences of
Context
The book was written after the book
However, at the time the book was published, the minicomputer market was still quite healthy, and Olsen was known as a dependable and trustworthy employer. DEC's community service projects were well known, most specifically his commitment to higher education and his donations of PDP-8 computers to local high schools in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Themes
Though the book today serves partially as a historical document of the computing industry, some valuable business lessons can be learned from it. The most important lesson is that a company's culture must change as its operating environment changes. In many ways, Ken Olsen was responsible for much of the innovation that created the personal computer, even though DEC failed to produce any successful personal computer product itself before the book was published.
The title of the book focuses on Ken Olsen's major career success, namely his successful introduction of the
References
- The ultimate entrepreneur: the story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation entry in ISBN 978-1-55958-022-9
- The Soul of a New Machine entry in Google Books, by Tracy Kidder, Reprint from 1981, Back Bay Books, 2000. ISBN 0-316-49197-7
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