The sweetspot secret sauce is for leadership to superposition the talent's output in the product. I don't know if ever Microsoft's ecosystem did this. While watching Google's acquired Deepmind defeat China's Go-champ I was playing with everything top of the line from Microsoft's ecosystem and the whole was less than the individual parts in quality, design, etc, put together. Apple has at times achieved this while under Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs's vision was decades and decades ahead of the curve if you go through his interviews. You get this sixth sense is in Elon Musk.
