Podcast: Michael Malone on "Bill and Dave"

a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591841526?ie=UTF8tag=wwwviolentkicomlinkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=1591841526″a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6XsGr86A1rs/RiLHzQHoWOI/AAAAAAAAAAo/0YlIXuZFQCs/s1600-h/malonecov.jpg”/aimg style=”float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6XsGr86A1rs/RiLHzQHoWOI/AAAAAAAAAAo/0YlIXuZFQCs/s200/malonecov.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053821415177345250″ //abr /Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard that is–of Hewlett and Packard fame. Today, Michael S. Malone, one of America’s most distinguished technology journalists and web columnist fora href=”http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=750595page=1″ ABC News/a talks to us about his new book, a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591841526?ie=UTF8tag=wwwviolentkicomlinkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=1591841526″emBill Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company./em/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwviolentkicoml=as2o=1a=1591841526″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” / He talks about HP as Silicon Valley’s first big company that started in a garage, about the old-fashioned values that Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard applied to the company’s growth, and about what happened when the “HP Way” met the 1990’s dot-com boom. It really is a fascinating story and there are some good lessons for today’s corporate world. br /br /You can listen directly — no downloads needed — by a href=”http://politicscentral.com/2007/04/15/the_glenn_and_helen_show_micha_3.php”going here/a and clicking on the gray Flash player. You can download the file yourself by a href=”http://richmedia.pjmedia.com/audio/politicscentral/glenn_helen_show/20070416-malone.mp3″clicking on this link/a — that’s easy too! — and you can get a lo-fi version suitable for dialup by a href=”http://politicscentral.com/2007/04/15/the_glenn_and_helen_show_micha_3.php”going here/a and selecting “lo-fi.” Our show archives with past and future episodes are at a href=”http://www.glennandhelenshow.com”GlennandHelenShow.com,/a and, of course, you can get a a href=”http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=116559643s=143441″free subscription via iTunes./abr /br /This podcast is sponsored by a href=”http://www.volvocars.us/”Volvocars.us./a