That is actually one of the side effects of Silicon Valley. The great news is that there is a great upside. The bad news is that we compete and cooperate with every other individual in Silicon Valley and this leads to a big constraint in terms of recruiting. As I mentioned before, being connected is important. You have to form partnerships.
Partnerships build a technology company's leadership position very quickly.
Companies that don't have partnerships and try to be an island, usually stay there. They usually live on the island. The other things I would stress is brainstorming ideas on strategy implementation and just being there when needed. On the opposite page you can see a snapshot of ours in Figure 4. I define it as 'in our four walls' and 'outside our four walls' or just 'in the four walls'.