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Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future

2 reviews
Robert Burgelman, Andrew S. Grove

Free Press, 2001

A summary of Prof Burgelman's Work
This is mainly an academic book, yet it can be insightful for CEOs or high and middle level executives too. The book describes and analyzes the extensive work of Prof. Burgelman in Strategy Process. Strategy-making cannot be considered as a pret-a-porter suit, yet Prof. Burgelman's model provides means to understand how to taylor one's suit.

Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases

2 reviews
Robert A. Burgelman, Andrew S. Grove, ...

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005

Rare: insightful and useful
As a consultant working with companies forging the next wave of information driven businesses, this book offered me truly relevant insights, and strategies on 'how to' as well as 'how not to' make the most of my clients' business opportunities. It focuses on "information-driven" industries, covering not only computer-related companies but also any industry that seeks to leverage information. ...

Only the Paranoid Survive

37 reviews
Andrew S. Grove

Profile Business, 1998

Every time you think your business is secure, reread this book
Andrew Grove immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1956, the same year that the Hungarian people spontaneously rose up against the communist government. Hungary's lose was Americans gain as he has a very astute business mind, which he demonstrates in this book. His major premise is that the pace of change in business is now so fast that there is no such thing as a secure market ...

HIGH OUTPUT MANAGEMENT

12 reviews
ANDREW S. GROVE

SOUVENIR PRESS LTD, 1984

Management - Straight from the horses mouth!
This book made its way onto the short list of books that I have picked up and read cover to cover in one sitting. Andrew Grove helped create a small memory chip manufacturer, and in the face of increased foreign competition, turned his company around to create the largest producer of computer processor chips to date. This book is a concise explanation of the methods and tactics he used to ...

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

29 reviews
Andrew S. Grove

Doubleday Business, 1999

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 ...

Swimming Across: A Memoir

28 reviews
Andrew S. Grove

Grand Central Publishing, 2002

Surprises me - Andrew Grove's childhood
Never would I have expected a man behind Intel could have such a childhood.I picked this book because it was written by Andrew Grove and mostly because it sets in the the times of World War II. Although I could not get much from a Jews perspective during the war time, however the book has captured some of the essence of tension during the period. I was intrigued by his childhood story and ...