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Only the Paranoid Survive How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

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ISBN-10: 0385483821

ISBN-13: 9780385483827

Edition: N/A

Authors: Andrew S. Grove

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Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. 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. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet, managed right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be an…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.23" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Andrew S. Grove is chairman and former CEO of Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California. He is the author of several books on technology and management, including High Output Management (1983), One-on-One With Andy Grove: How to Manage Your Boss, Yourself, and Your Co-Workers (1987) and Only the Paranoid Survive (1996). He has also written a weekly column on management for the San Jose Mercury News. Born September 2, 1936, in Budapest, Hungary, Grove emigrated to the U.S. in 1957 and became a naturalized citizen in 1962. He studied Chemical Engineering at City College in New York, and earned a Ph.D. in 1963 from University of California, Berkeley. He began working at Fairchild…    

Only the Paranoid Survive
Something Changed
What Happened to Us
"That Guy Is Always the Last to Know"
A "10X" Change
The Six Forces Affecting a Business
A "10X" Force
The Strategic Inflection Point
The Morphing of the Computer Industry
Before the Strategic Inflection Point
After the Strategic Inflection Point
Winners and Losers
The New Rules of the Horizontal Industry
They're Everywhere
"10X" Change: Competition
Wal-Mart: An overwhelming force in town
Next: The software company
"10X" Change: Technology
Sound takes over silent movies
Upheaval in the shipping industry
The PC revolution: A tale of denial
"10X" Change: Customers
Changing tastes in cars
Attitude shifts
The double whammy in supercomputers
"10X" Change: Suppliers
Airlines flex their muscles
The end of second sourcing
"10X" Change: Complementors
"10X" Change: Regulation
The demise of patent medicines
The reordering of telecommunications
Privatization
"Why Not Do It Ourselves?"
Entering Our Strategic Inflection Point
The Route to Survival
Looking Back
"Signal" or "Noise"?
Is X-ray Technology a "10X" Force?
RISC versus CISC
Is It or Isn't It?
Helpful Cassandras
Avoiding the Trap of the First Version
Debate
Arguing with the Data
Fear
Let Chaos Reign
The Touchy-Feely Issues
The Inertia of Success
Strategic Dissonance
Experimentation
The Business Bubble
A New Industry Map
Rein in Chaos
Traversing the Valley of Death
Redeploying Resources
Leading Via Strategic Actions
The Clarity Imperative
Adjusting to the New
Dynamic Dialectic
The Other Side of the Valley
The Internet: Signal or Noise? Threat or Promise?
What Is the Internet Anyway?
Bits and Stolen Eyeballs
What About Us?
Threat or Promise?
What Do We Do?
Career Inflection Points
Your Career Is Your Business
The Mental Fire Drill
Timing Is Everything
Get in Shape for Change
A New World
Notes
Index