Andy grove, founder and former ceo of intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the reader deep inside the workings of a major company in Only the Paranoid Survive. Under andy grove's leadership, Intel became the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. When a strategic inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window.
Grove calls such a moment a strategic inflection Point, which can be set off by almost anything: mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. Yet, managed right, a strategic Inflection Point can be an opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever.
Grove underscores his message by examining his own record of success and failure, which threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, including how he navigated the events of the Pentium flaw, and how he has dealt with the explosions in growth of the Internet.
High Output Management
Born of grove’s experiences at one of america’s leading technology companies, High Output Management is equally appropriate for sales managers, and teachers, consultants, accountants, as well as CEOs and startup founders. Grove covers techniques for creating highly productive teams, demonstrating methods of motivation that lead to peak performance—throughout, High Output Management is a practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. A lifelong rap fanatic, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.
Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. Okrs surface an organization's most important work. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. They focus effort and foster coordination.
. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress—to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. For google to change the world or even to survive, Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track.
Larry page and sergey brin had amazing technology, and sky-high ambitions, entrepreneurial energy, but no real business plan.
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters. Foreword by bill gateslinkedin cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.
What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants?The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water.
The objective of blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion –as quickly as possible. When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Management of Innovation and Change
Christensen. His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices. Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator’s Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.
Sharp, and provocativeand consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all timeThe Innovator’s Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, cogent, or entrepreneur should be without. Named one of 100 leadership & success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsA Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller.
Named by fast company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. From steve jobs to jeff bezos, Clay Christensen’s work continues to underpin today’s most innovative leaders and organizations. The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M.
Swimming Across
. A moving reminder of the meaning of America and the grit and courage of a remarkable young man who became one of America’s phenomenal success stories. Henry kissinger“this honest and riveting account gives a fascinating insight into the man who wrote Only the Paranoid Survive. George soros“andy grove is a tremendous role model, and his book sheds light on his amazing journey.
A wonderful reading experience. Richard north patterson“A poignant tale leading to human courage and hope. Elie wiesel“grove, the founder and chairman of Intel Corporation, does not whine about his hardships. A polished, solid portrait of a particular time and place. Kirkus“A moving and inspiring memoir.
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High Growth Handbook
Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Instacart, Google, Stripe, Coinbase, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global brands. Elad gil is one of Silicon Valley's seriously knowledgeable and battle-tested players.
Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High Growth Handbook. This book shares these learnings for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Nathan blecharczyk, chief strategy officer, co-founder of Airbnb, and Chairman of Airbnb China "Elad jam-packs every useful lesson about building and scaling companies into a single, digestible book.
In what reid hoffman, cofounder of linkedin and co-author of the #1 NYT bestsellers The Alliance and The Startup of You calls "a trenchant guide, " High Growth Handbook is the playbook for turning a startup into a unicorn. My only gripe is that he didn't write this when we were in the early days of Box as it would have saved my ass countless times.
Aaron levie, cofounder and CEO of Box.
My Years With General Motors
My years with general motors was an instant best seller when it was first published in 1964 and is still considered indispensable reading by acclaimed business leaders today. Sloan describes the evolution of the company's basic management policies and strategic concepts: the organization policy, the concept of financial control, and the product policy which revolutionized the automobile market.
Sloan, Jr. My years with General Motors tells Alfred P. Sloan and Pierre S. This edition has no photos nor charts. I put no ceiling on progress. Alfred p Sloan, Jr.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
1 new york times bestsellerif you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. The next bill Gates will not build an operating system. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business.
It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. The next larry page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1.
Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice.
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Harperbusiness Essentials
. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers" Wall Street Journal. A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management—the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done.
This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins. What makes an effective executive?For decades, Peter F.