Author
Andrew S. Grove
The engineer who ran Intel and wrote management down as a production process, one-on-one included.
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The story and the impact
Andrew Grove was born in Budapest in 1936, survived the war and the Soviet occupation, and left Hungary after the 1956 uprising, arriving in the United States at twenty with almost no English. He studied chemical engineering and earned a doctorate at Berkeley.
He joined Fairchild Semiconductor and in 1968 became Intel's third employee, running its operations through the memory years and the move into microprocessors. He was Intel's chief executive from 1987 to 1998 and its chairman until 2005, and was named Time's Man of the Year in 1997.
High Output Management, published in 1983 and revised in 1995, set out his view of the manager's work; Only the Paranoid Survive, in 1996, described strategic inflection points. He died in 2016.
The signature
Grove writes like the production engineer he was: a breakfast factory to explain a process, an equation to define a manager's output, a rule of thumb for how much an hour with a subordinate is worth. His signature is leverage, the question of what an activity does to the output of everyone it touches, and the one-on-one as the subordinate's meeting.