Subj : Jack Tramiel
To   : All
From : Simon Geddes
Date : Sun Jan 19 2020 07:06 am

Jack gets a bad rapp for his "Jack attacks", and I'm not sure how well I would have survived if I ever had to work under him. But reading "The Home Computer Wars" the other day, it left me with a slightly different feeling - an admiration for the man's sheer determination to win in business, and his belief in his own business "religion".

I tried to distill out of the book the components of The Religion (according to the book, Jack called it this himself). It included a strong focus on lean business (sounds very modern), reducing the number of layers of command, expecting managers to "get involved" and not just manage. He was apparently oft-quoted as saying "business is like sex. You have to be involved".

Just wondering if there are any other closet Jack admirers, and whether they can shed any more light on Jack's business religion?