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Andy Grove’s quantum leap was to apply manufacturing production principles to the “soft professions,” the administrative, professional, and managerial ranks. He sought to “create an environment that values and emphasizes output”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Andy Grove was a rare hybrid, a supreme technologist and the greatest chief executive of his day. We sorely miss him.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,
... See moreWalter Isaacson • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Andy Grove will always be my model of CEO competence. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, wrote the best management book I’ve ever read (High Output Management), and tirelessly refined his craft.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
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‘Grove famously said that about a third of the people he hires are great: they transform the function they’re in charge of, they inspire brilliant people and make his business fundamentally better,’ summarised Marsh. Another third are OK. They don’t really do much harm, or much good. And about a third are a disaster, and if he didn’t get rid of the
... See moreJames Silver • Upscale: What it takes to scale a startup. By the people who've done it.
Andy Grove learned paranoia hiding from Nazis as a child. Decades later, that same paranoia saved Intel.
While posting record profits, Grove hunted for what could kill his company. When Japanese firms started destroying Intel’s core memory business, he asked: What would a new CEO do if we got fired? The answer was bru... See more
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more