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Summary: Outstanding contribution... An absolute must read!
Review: A well thought out guide to identifying and understanding catastrophic changes in the corporate world and in personal life. Andrew Grove shares a lifetime of lessons and experiences in this book. He is also very candid and enables the reader to identify with his thinking. The book is well written, and worth reading twice
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Summary: A must-read for business and management people.
Review: Andrew Grove has clearly explained and illustrated the 10X factor and "self-inflection point"; his expertise not only took Intel ahead but also earned him the respect and admiration of different people in the industry. He was also Time magazine's Man of the Year.
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Summary: All Fear the Status Quo
Review: Andy Grove has verbalized the mindset that we must all develop to survive in the 21st Century. While his idea of constantly looking over your shoulder has always been applicable, the speed of the Internet economy requires that we do it much more frequently and penalizes us much more quickly if we do not.Grove does a great job of showing how one man's crises is another's opporuntity and uses the term strategic inflection points to describe these periods of 10x change. This book is a good reminder for anyone who thinks that what made them successful to this point is any guarantee that they will be successful in the future.
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Summary: All Fear the Status Quo
Review: Andy Grove has verbalized the mindset that we must all develop to survive in the 21st Century. While his idea of constantly looking over your shoulder has always been applicable, the speed of the Internet economy requires that we do it much more frequently and penalizes us much more quickly if we do not. Grove does a great job of showing how one man's crises is another's opporuntity and uses the term strategic inflection points to describe these periods of 10x change. This book is a good reminder for anyone who thinks that what made them successful to this point is any guarantee that they will be successful in the future.
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Summary: This is a great book!!!
Review: Andy Grove's down-to-earth management style and no nonsence perception of today's competitive environment is evident throughout this inspiring book. Filled with practical applications that fit every business, this book is a must read!!!
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Summary: Read it for the following
Review: As seen from the other comments, there are definitely certain things this book provides that are great, and others that it doesn't. Read this book for the following: A Good, quick, story summarizing the deintegration of the computing value chain. About the emergence of a zone of 'No Profit' in memory chips in the 80s. About the importance of looking out on the periphery. About drawing your industry landscape. About being open to drastic shifts in your industry. About managing change in your oganization (a high-level perspective). Don't read it for anything else.
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Summary: ONLY THOSE WHO ABOLISH "STALLED" THINKING SURVIVE
Review: Business leaders tend to develop a plan and direction for their business that "feels" right and allows them to grow. Seldom do they look around to see if a much better solution is right under their noses. Having grasped the first, most obvious alternative, other alternatives fade into the background. This book suggests that companies should use discomfort with their current position to cause that look around for a better alternative. Like the boy who bent over to pick up a dime while his father looked around first and picked up twenty dollars at the same time, this gives you the chance to be many times more successful. In this book, Intel lost the handle on how to compete in commodity memory chips. An emphasis on profitability caused the organization to self-direct itself into doing more with microprocessors. Because of the inherent value-added being higher in microprocessors, this almost-accidental turn of fate was a wonderful blessing in disguise. Intel's leadership abolished the memory chip business long after the company had abandoned the business. This is one of the few books that appreciates that being satisfied with what one has today is the primary enemy of progress. The lessons of this book could be improved by further considering other ways to get organizations to notice better alternatives than just relying on fear of competition, technological trends and so forth. The concept of "strategic inflection points" developed in this book is a useful addition to the search for better alternatives. Dr. Grove made our company's list of outstanding CEOs 5 of the last 8 years for his outstanding performance in stock-price improvement. That is a powerful testament to the value of these concepts.
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Summary: Il miglior libro del mondo !
Review: Cari amici imprenditrori Italiani, leggete anche voi questo libro che sicuramente vi darà degli interessanti spunti per le vostre aziende.E state attenti .... la meteora prima o poi arriverà anche per Voi !!! Andrea Polo
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Summary: A Practical Guide For Eliminating Stalls From Complacency
Review: Complacency is one of the biggest enemies of any organization, but especially for successful ones like Intel. ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE provides two powerful observations that will help anyone who reads this book: (1) That changes are lurking out there that need immediate attention inside your organization and (2) That you must be constantly vigilant for large discontinuous changes (such as those driven by microprocessors, Intel's main product). Having the perspective of someone who has been both the beneficiary and the target of discontinuous change, Dr. Grove's lessons become all the more real. At first, I thought this book was a little overdone; but upon reflection, I feel that complacency is probably best overcome by paranoia in the absence of the management process to locate, anticipate, create and adapt to externally-driven discontinuous changes. We cite this book in our own book about how to be more successful, because we believe it is an important work. Please read this book, and take its lessons seriously. But have fun while you are being paranoid!
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Summary: Don't pat yourself on the back too quick HR
Review: Congrats to Andy for being Time's man of the year. But keep in mind that the publisher who put out "Paranoid" is no longer operating, largely due to its own paranoid management.
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