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Of his top architects he once said: 'Some of them are kind of unusual; you really have to understand them personally. I'm actually friends with all my architects. When I work with the architects there is enough mutual respect that, should we disagree, I make the final decision and we move on.'
This structure means that Gates only had to speak to one group of three and one group of seven people to control the company. It was his own version of divide and rule, and it seemed to work.
こうした構造を見ると、会社を動かすのに、ゲイツだけが、3人もしくは7人のグループと話をしている、ということだ。
彼独特の仕分けと規律の構造だ。そして、うまくいっていたようだ。