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Summary: An inspiring guide to get through radical change!
Review: This book is an inspirational and thought provoking guide for those that have never been through what Grove classifies as a Strategic Inflection Point. As a leader in an industry going through massive change, I find this book to be one of the few that I will refer back to time and time again.
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Summary: A BOOK TO KEEP ON YOUR DESK
Review: THIS IS A GOOD BOOK THAT YOU WILL REFER TO EVERYDAY. AS A MANAGER OF A MID SIZED DISTRIBUTION COMPANY WE FOUND THIS USEFUL AND INTERESTING. OUR MANAGERS ARE REQUESTED TO READ THIS. ANOTHER GOOD BOOK IS THE 2000 PERCENT SOLOUTION WHICH CAN TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND HELP YOU SOLVE AND CURE STALLED THINKING, WHICH PLAGUES US ALL IN BUSINESS.
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Summary: Nothing new here
Review: This is something that any first year business student could have written. It is a fast read but it provides no new insights.
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Summary: Good content...a little hard to read.
Review: This was a good book. A little to technical and difficult to read
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Summary: Good history, questionable advise. Look elsewhere
Review: While this book is well written, it should be looked upon as a history and not as a formula for success. It offers more in the soft-and-feeling area than in something that can be taken to the bank. It does throw light on how well placed and
open Grove is inside his business, and that should
be a call to arms for all CEOs.
I found the book called Value Migration printed by the Harvard Business School more systematic on finding your edge competitors. In fact there are
a number of books on this same topic which are
more useful.
I also think Grove's reason for the unseating of
DEC, etc. from pre-eminent position leaves one
questioning. I can't see a difference between Intel and Microsoft (Wintel) and DEC: Microsoft wants to own everything except the hardware (which it has given to Intel) and the applications, which for the most are specific to a company and
industry. This seems like DEC, except it wanted
the hardware as well. My own experience is that
DEC had just plain bad marketing, and you need
only look at the Alpha debacle to see the truth
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Summary: Don't waste your time reading this book.
Review: With so many good books out there on management and business there is no reason to read this boring book. The only advantage in reading it is that it rounds out the picture you get of Andy Grove by reading his first book, High Output Management, and Tim Jackson's book, Inside Intel. Grove is definately an interesting business figure, and unquestionably a top manager. However, you do not get any insights into him or his management style by reading this book. High Output Management is much better for this. In addition, I have no clearer idea about how to recognize strategic inflection points now than I did before I read the book. I don't think Grove does either, as proved by the way he handled the switch from manufacturing memory chip or the way he handled the floating point Pentium problem. Intel's recent troubles in dealing with low cost computers further underscores their inability to recognize strategic inflection points. What Grove and Intel are good at is ex! cellent organization and management, as well as being fierce and ruthless competitors. Tim Jackson describes this much better than Grove. If you want to read a good book on management, read Harold Geneen's classic "Managing". If you want to read a good book on someone who recogized strategic infection points, read Titan. P.S. Grove's preoccupation with the comany's switch from making memory chips to microprocessors gets very old.
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