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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
Managing, by the former head of ITT, Harold Geneen.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Ben Horowitz on Peacetime vs. Wartime CEOs:
Management literature is almost entirely written for peacetime CEOs. Everything you learn about decision-making and delegation and “don't micromanage”, all these things are very peacetime oriented in the sense that in peacetime, you're much more focused on the development of the people and the organization
... See moreGreat Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. It was one of the things that the PARC group admired most about Bob Taylor. Interestingly, Tom West fought hard for his Eagle group at Data General but chose not to tell them, reasoning that it would only distract them from the project. As a result, some of his t
... See morePatricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
effective CEO/coach might say,