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Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
books written by Andy Grove,
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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
Process, assembly, and test operations can be readily applied to other very different kinds of productive work.
Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, outlined when he described what happens to businesses in tumultuous times: “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”
Holiday, Ryan • The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
stagger chart,
Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
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
Increasing the leverage associated with the various managerial activities.