I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.
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Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
Making new products is an easy tap for a company in a recession.
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
There are still many things to work on - the start, the transition, the finish. I am not just going to sit around and wait.
I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.
Things work in cycles.
From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.
Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.
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