Part 2
During Think Week, he is away from ‘the world’ – no human contact except his wife. This enables him to immerse himself, cleaning his mind and body, being away from all the memos, manuscripts and articles, and this in return brings a space for brilliant ideas for his corporate. “During the six days of Think Week, I did nothing other than reading, sleeping and eating (p.99-100 of this chapter)”.
Before the Think Week came in, Gates had several trials of different working styles, where he just sat down and replied all the comments from employees regarding the corporate management and projects, or read all the materials ranged from overviews about coming consumer trends to recent issues with semiconductors.