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Andrew S. Grove

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Andrew S. Grove (born 1936)

Andrew Grove was the legendary CEO who built Intel into the world's most important semiconductor company. A Holocaust survivor who emigrated from Hungary with nothing, he became one of the most influential business leaders of the 20th century and authored management classics that remain Silicon Valley's operating manual.

Grove brought an engineer's precision to management. High Output Management distilled leadership into measurable inputs and outputs. Only the Paranoid Survive coined the concept of strategic inflection points. Both books are intensely practical — they tell you exactly what to do, not just what to think.

A manager's output is the output of his organization plus the output of the neighboring organizations under his influence.
— Andrew S. Grove
from High Output Management
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
— Andrew S. Grove
from High Output Management
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in resistance.
— Andrew S. Grove
from High Output Management
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.
— Andrew S. Grove
from Only the Paranoid Survive
A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change.
— Andrew S. Grove
from Only the Paranoid Survive
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
— Andrew S. Grove
from Only the Paranoid Survive

Books by Andrew S. Grove

High Output Management

High Output Management

1983

Only the Paranoid Survive

Only the Paranoid Survive

1996