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Start-up Nation : The Story of Israel's Economic MiracleHe spent days and nights meeting with, probing, and listening to military men up and down the ranks. More than six months before the United Nations passed its partition plan for dividing Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state, Ben-Gurion was keenly aware that the next phase in the Arab-Israeli conflict would be very different from the war the pre-state Jewish militias had been fighting; they needed to step back, in the midst of ongoing fighting, and plan for the existential threats that were nearing. At the end of the seminar, Ben-Gurion wrote of the menБЂ™s confidence in their readiness: БЂњWe have to undertake difficult workБЂ”to uproot from the hearts of men who are close to the matter the belief that they have something. In fact, they have nothing. They have good will, they have hidden capacities, but they have to know: to make a shoe one has to study cobbling.БЂ«13 IntelБЂ™s Otellini didnБЂ™t know it, but his Israeli team was giving him a similar message. They saw that Intel was headed for the БЂњpower wall.БЂ«Instead of waiting to ram into it, the Israelis wanted Otellini to avert it by taking a step back, discarding conventional thinking, and considering a fundamental change in the companyБЂ™s technological approach ...» |
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