The kind of management talent that declined to build IBM PC hardware at exactly the time when it could have given them massive competitive advantage over companies making a similar mistake?
That mistake came later, after the company was already extremely successful. Left up to the engineer alone, there wouldn't have been a company to fail.
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Bob looks to be a more important part of the story than Carole. He is certainly mentioned more often and his contributions are more clearly defined.
In those days, you could throw a rock in a random direction and hit a talented engineer.
Still can, really.
Management talent, not so much.
The kind of management talent that declined to build IBM PC hardware at exactly the time when it could have given them massive competitive advantage over companies making a similar mistake?
That mistake came later, after the company was already extremely successful. Left up to the engineer alone, there wouldn't have been a company to fail.