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title: Worth Noting
description: As Bill Gates gets ready to reduce his role at Microsoft and turn the reins over to Steve Ballmer full-time, there are several articles worth reading.
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# Worth Noting

[ Doug Davidoff ](https://www.liftenablement.com/blog/author/doug-davidoff)  Jun 30, 2008 1:45:10 PM

As Bill Gates gets ready to reduce his role at Microsoft and turn the reins over to Steve Ballmer full-time, there are several articles worth reading. I just finished reading this [article](http://archive.fortune.com/2008/06/20/technology/gates_after_microsoft.fortune/index.htm). Here's my favorite quote about Gates - and a thought we should all keep in the forefront of our mind. The quote if from Nathan Myhrvold, a close friend and ex-Microsoft exec.

*The classic CEO needs to be right, or rather needs to appear to be right more than he needs to actually be right - and that's not Bill. Lewis and Clark were lost most of the time. If your idea of exploration is to always* *know where you are and to be inside your zone of competence, you don't do wild new shit. You have to be confused, upset, think you're stupid. If you're not willing to do that, you can't go outside the box.*

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