Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591841399 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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READ this book - LEARN about a MASTER!!!! This is a book that every businessman confronted with the problems of rapid change needs to read. Intel the giant technology company is Andy Grove, and Andy Grove is Intel. More than any other single individual, Grove left his footprint on this company. He started off as Intel's 3rd hire; the first two were Gordon Moore, and Bob Noyce, two other Silicon Valley legends. By the time Grove was finished there were tens of thousands of employees.You might recall that Gordon Moore, Andy's mentor is the creator of the famous "Moore's Law". There are man. A Most Revealing Dissection of Andy Grove and the Silicon Valley Phenomenon In Mukul Pandya and Robbie Shell's profile of the top 25 business leaders today, "Lasting Leadership", they cite one above all others, Intel's CEO Andy Grove. The one chapter on Grove (appropriately entitled "Best of the Best") certainly whet my appetite for Harvard Business School professor and historian Richard Tedlow's full-fledged biography, which turns out to be not only a thoughtful profile of Grove but also a fascinating historical overview of the technology industry. How these two aspects intertwine provides the most provocative parts of . András István Gróf, American While reading and then reviewing most of Richard Tedlow's previous books, I was soon convinced that he is a cultural anthropologist as well as a business historian. With consummate skill, he creates a richly textured context within which he analyzes various corporate executives such as Andrew Carnegie, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Robert Noyce, both Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Jr., Charles Revson, and Sam Walton. His talents are comparable with those of Joseph J. Ellis and David McCullough. As he explains in the introduction to this book, he intervi
. Following the company over the rocky patches in its trajectory from semiconductors to microprocessors, Tedlow situates Intel among its industry partners and competitors. 1936) taking a place alongside Benjamin Franklin as a quintessential American businessman and citizen. But as a biography of Intel as well as a primer on Grove's writings and management philosophy, the book is truly illuminating. From Publishers Weekly In this highly readable but deliberately paced biography, Harvard professor and historian Tedlow (Giants of Enterprise) makes a case for Andy Grove (b. Indeed, Grove rose from being a penniless Hungarian refugee to an engineer hired as Intel's third employee, eventually heading the corporation—"one of the most profitable companies in all of business history." Tedlow builds the book around a year-by-year, blow-by-blow account of Intel's ups and downs, punctuated by Grove's contemporaneous musings, drawn from
He joined Intel at its founding in 1968, rose to CEO in 1987, then led the company into the stratosphere, with compound annual profit growth at 34 percent for the next eleven years. Forcibly adapting himself to a succession of new realities, he has left a trail of discarded assumptions in his wake. And Grove became Time's Man of the Year-an icon of the promise of the American life. * Why he stumbled during the Pentium crisis of 1994, and how he parlayed it into a reinvigorated concept of ingredient branding ("Intel Inside"). This is an unauthorized biography that uniquely illuminates Grove's life, Intel's history, and the rise of Silicon Valley.. After putting himself through college and graduate school, he arrived in Silicon Valley at the perfect time for an ambitious young engineer. The simple facts of Grove's career are the stuff of legend. * How his complex relationships evolved with the legendary cofounders of Intel, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce. Born in Hungary of Jewish origin in 1936, he survived the Holocaust only to face the Soviet inva