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Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company (平装)
by Andrew S. Grove
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A practical guide for eliminating stalls from complacency. |
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Forbes, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
Probably the best book on business written by a business person since Alfred Sloan's My Years with General Motors.
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Peter F. Drucker, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
This terrific book is dangerous... It will make people think. |
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Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple Computer), USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
This book is about one super-important concept. You must learn about Strategic Inflection Points, because sooner or later you are going to live through one. |
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Reed Hundt (Chairman, Federal Communications Commission), USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
Andy explains - with modesty that cannot conceal his brilliance, how he has led Intel through changes and challenges that many companies could not cope with...The country will benefit from his vision. |
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Donald Mitchell, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
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. I often cite this book in our writings about how to be more successful, because I 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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Rolf Dobelli, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
Only the Paranoid Survive will never be compared with Churchill's memoirs in terms of literary mastery, but Andrew Grove's book does succeed where many other business tell-alls fail: It illustrates the lessons that you can learn from the challenges that its protagonist has overcome. In other words, this book teaches you something. By focusing on the make-or-break turning points that determined Intel's fate, Grove shows how to manage crises in order to seize the opportunities that they so often provide. For this simple lesson, we from getAbstract recommend this book to all business readers. |
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Naomi, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
This book is an enjoyable read that is written by the CEO of Intel, this book is noteworthy in that it describes in detail a rare event: the successful change in business models of an already large and successful company. Grove describes the influences of the overall business environment (and in particular addresses the concept of a "strategic inflection point"), the political dynamics and drama within Intel, and a candid view of what went on in his own head as Intel faced a crisis that could well have ended in disaster rather than triumph. Grove does a great service to other executives by reflecting on what he learned from this and related events at Intel. There is much to learn from here. |
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Gene Bromberg, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
In today's business world there just isn't time to sit back and casually look over the scene. Competitors can attack with little or no warning, the product that defines your company can become obsolete overnight. What Grove describes so well in this book is the mindset that companies must develop in order to thrive in this ultra-competitive environment. Managers must obsessively examine possible threats from both outside competition and internal complacency, either of which can doom a company.
A company that is content to sit back and rest on its laurels is one that risks destruction. The best companies, like Intel and Microsoft and Gillette, work like crazy to develop great products and then work even harder to develop the products that make their last one obsolete. They always keep looking over their shoulder and worrying about who might be lying in wait for them, and this attitude keeps them hungry and vigilant, and very difficult to compete with.
Probably the one piece of wisdom that people glean from this book is Grove's description of "strategic inflection points", times when the industry a company works within undergoes a fundamental change. This is an important concept, but it's difficult to use it as a managerial guide because, as Grove states in his book, you usually don't know you're IN a strategic inflection point until it's been going on for quite awhile. Companies that quickly understand the meaning of a strategic inflection point and have the energy and intelligence to act quickly and correctly can make huge strides against competitors who pause too long. And that is where the paranoia of the book's title comes into play. A company that is constantly questioning itself and its market is far more likely to identify strategic inflection points and is far more able to deal with them. And that is what managers who read this book should definitely take to heart - that complacency is a killer. If you snooze, you lose. |
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Peter Tillman, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
Andy Grove, CEO of the phenomenally successful Intel Corp, is clearly worth listening to on the subject of management. The "Wintel" success story is well known. More harrowing was Intel's earlier self-transformation from making memory chips to making microprocessors.
How to steer an enterprise thru a major change in its business, per Mr. Grove:
1) Figure out if a major change is imminent. If so, you're about to enter what Grove calls "the valley of death".
2) Figure out how to deal with it. Largely (for CEOs), this involves listening to your employees & doing your homework.
3) Set a new course, sell it to your company, and stick to it.
The "secret" to success here is identifying the oncoming crisis early & reacting sensibly. He relates the story of Apple, a company with clearly superior products - the Mac operating system, the first good laser printer -completely missing the shift from proprietary to open PC standards, and ending up as a niche player. John Sculley, then Apple's CEO, acknowledged this crucial mistake years later. Groves thinks Sculley knew this shift was happening , but wasn't able to overcome Apple's "inertia of success". Curiously, this was pretty much the same problem IBM had when PCs began displacing mainframes. It's very hard for an organization to give up a strategy that has been richly rewarded in the past.
In management, as in engineering, we often learn more from failures than successes. Grove's case histories will make informative reading for anyone in business. Not many of us are CEOs, but we'll all go thru Grove's "strategic inflection points" in our careers.
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William Rosetti, USA
<2006-12-21 00:00>
This is not just another business book.
"Foresight is not a gift - it's learned. You must see the future in your head first before doing it"
The author is giving us clarity, writing another page in the instruction book of life - we have no manuals to guide us through it at the outset. Other reviewers are missing the point here, it's not only regarding business, but as one reviewer saw it - sound and practical advice. And if you follow a simple paradigm of rules in life and set goals with continued awareness your purpose here will be solidified. My discernment reading other reviews is typical of academic intelligence and the breeding of what to think and not how to think. Our whole life is a business, and people like Andy Grove are very unselfish, adducing as evidence tools to cultivate continually our growth. Andy is apostolic providing such humanistic qualities that can quickly shift the constellation of power in all of us. The only thing that holds any of us down from growing is our lack of candor to life's recipes with our constancy of pessimism. Any person that wants to understand the purpose here and relationships in their life - whatever they are, should read this other brilliant passage that we didn't receive at birth. These are the kinds of books that need to be read. It provides you with an understanding that acquiescing in our mistakes is the acumen necessary to be successful in life, and that the impetus for growth is found in our volitions. This opens up another window, and this freshet of wisdom will stretch your mind and brighten your outlook - a necessary, acknowledging, and absolutely uplifting read. |
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