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

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Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
by Andrew S. Grove
from Doubleday Business

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Relevant, but dated messaging
  I had wanted to read this book for some time because I was intrigued by the title. This book does provided some good insight into how to anticipate and manage the natural boom-bust cycles that affect all businesses. However, the stories about the emergence of GUI based computing and the Internet, as examples of strategic inflection points for Intel, were not particularly enlightening for me. I suppose the material is too familiar given my background in the tech industry and as an investor in Intel.
  I... more info

• Great Insight Into a Business Leader's World
  This book covers the history of Intel, some great stories, his management approach and even the daily regime of a business warrior. I highly recommend. And another thing I like - it is relatively short.

• Enriching Personal Real-Life Account by Someone Who Had Managed a Mega-Size Corporation!!!
  The real value of this book is that it is written by someone, Andrew Grove, who has actual experiences and managed a start-up right up to a mega successful corporation. There are tons of management and marketing books written by people, based on case-studies and analysis, but lack actual experiences managing or working in a corporation.
  The main concept of this book is on strategic inflection point, which is a time in the life of the business when its fundamentals are about to change. This change can... more info

• Rhetoric and boring!
  This book is rhetoric and boring with a few examples of successful and unsuccessful ventures so I started reading about Grove and his background.
  The influence of communism in his early years seems to have put Grove in the paranoia groove. The culture of paranoia is clearly seen in Intel's business today- slow decision making, trust issues with employees and even customers!
  Hire and fire culture has made the remaining employees work the system to `survive' rather than innovate and thrive.more info

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