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High Output Management
by Andrew S. Grove
from Vintage

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Glad I Wasn't There - A Worker's Perspective
  This book was referred to in a book I read called, The Microprocessor: A Biography (Silicon Valley Series). If you are more interested in what Grove did at Intel to win the microprocessor war, (who's outcome may actually be unfortunate for consumers, in that if PCs wound up with the superior Motorola 680X0 chip we might have better PCs). Do a search on "Operation CRUSH" for more on Andrew Grove.
  From the aforementioned book, Pg. 171
  "Grove refused to let even a recession force Intel to deviate... more info

• Sound advice, if they really use it
  I worked at Intel for over 5 years, and although this book is chock full of excellent strategies and advice for managers, I saw very little evidence that these principles were being put into use in the company during the entire time I was there, at least in my division, which was one of the bigger ones at the company.

  I will say, however, that Intel is a very odd place to work with its own unique corporate culture, some of which I would say is quite functional, but a lot of it isn't; or at least, the... more info

• Good book of management techniques
  This was a good book. I was not able to apply all of the techniques, but most of it came in useful. I always liked what Andy Grove did with Intel, his visions and his capability to keep Intel on the top. It's a good book. Read it. It will take you a couple of days, but you will be a better person after you have read it...

• Good book but...
  Perhaps the strategies in this book work because Intel's people work very hard at implementing them, not because they are inherently better than other ideas.

  When I first started at Intel one of the things I noticed right off was how old Intel employees looked for their age (at least the ones that had been there for 7-10 years or more) compared to the other companies I had worked at over the years. I noticed women only in their early 30's who had worked there since their early 20's, for whom the rosy... more info

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