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Only the Paranoid Survive: A Manual for Training Special Managers Author: Andy Grove Publisher: CITIC Press
Only the Paranoid Survive: A Manual for Training Special Managers Author: Andy Grove Publisher: CITIC Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Sooner or later your company will reach a strategic turning point, and the foundation of the company will change dramatically in an instant: technology, rules, competitive environment, industry structure... everything will change.
If left unchecked, strategic inflection points can be destructive enough to destroy a "good" company. However, strategic inflection points do not always lead to disaster. Some companies may use this opportunity to leap to new heights if managers can keenly perceive the change in wind direction and take the right actions in time.
During his 11 years as Intel's CEO, Andy Grove was pushed to the brink of strategic turning points many times. The most dangerous time was in the mid-1980s, when Japanese memory manufacturers almost forced Intel into a dead end. Intel eventually had to withdraw from the production of memory chips and turn to another relatively new territory, the development of microprocessors. Thinking about strategic turning points helped Intel survive in the fierce competition and become the world's largest chip manufacturer.
In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove makes his valuable experience and systematic thinking public, pointing out the way to remain undefeated in the most terrible environments and the most frequent changes.
About the Author
Andy Grove was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1936. He graduated from the City University of New York in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, and received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963.
In 1968, Grove co-founded Intel Corporation with Bob Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, the co-inventor of the integrated circuit, and Gordon Moore, the inventor of the often-cited "Moore's Law." In 1979, Grove was named president of Intel Corporation and in 1987 he became CEO.
Grove was named "Person of the Year" by Time magazine in 1997, received the "Annual Outstanding Management Award" from the American Management Association in 1998, and received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Strategic Management Association in 2001. In 2004, he was nominated by the Wharton School of Business as the most influential business person in the past 25 years.
