Not Because it is Easy, But Because it is Hard

I grew up in Pakistan, a country that was then peaceful and progressive. After high school I had the good fortune to get admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So in the fall of 1974 on a rainy August evening I arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It...

What Kennedy Said

Rich and I first became friends in 1977 at Analytic Services, a federally funded “think tank” in Washington, D.C., where we spent a few years supporting future Air Force development. When we left Analytic Services, Rich set off for Harvard Business School and I joined...