The decision to write a book called Tough Choices and to write it myself, I did, in fact, write it myself every word, no collaborator, no ghost writer, for better for worse.

That decision first occurred to me about five years ago. I was sitting on the witness stand being cross examined by a team of attorneys, because having just received enough shareholder votes to complete the acquisition of Compaq computer. We were sued one last time to try stop it. And as I said on that witness stand being questioned by these attorneys that occurred to me that most people don't actually understand how a business operates. Because all of the questions that I was being asked really had to do with how you set goals and how you motivate people to achieve those goals. And the fact is that if you want to change products and profits, you have to change what people do everyday. And so I decided five years ago that I would write a book about business from the point of view of what I find most fascinating most challenging and most fun about business. And that is that's all about people, it's all about the people.