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See customer reviews on Amazon →This book reads like a manual from a seasoned manufacturing boss who treats management as an engineering discipline. You'll get actionable frameworks for meetings, performance reviews, and decision-making, all grounded in Grove’s own experience scaling Intel. The most useful part is the relentless focus on maximizing output through high-leverage activities. The limitation: it’s heavily tilted toward production environments, and its advice on people management can feel transactional or overly rigid for today’s knowledge-work teams.
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In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work. The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single word: managing. Born of Grove’s experiences at one of America’s leading technology companies (as CEO and employee number three at Intel), High Output Management is equally appropriate for sales managers, accountants, consultants, and teachers, as well as CEOs and startup…
Difficulty:easy
Length:274 pages (Medium)
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Recommended by 21 sources and appears in Books Recommended by CEOs, Books Recommended by Investors, and Books Recommended by Billionaires.
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Consider Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Recommended by 101 sources.
“A sweeping narrative history of Homo sapiens from the Cognitive Revolution to the present. Harari argues that what makes humans dominate the planet is not physical strength but collective myths: shared fictions like money, religion, and nations that allow millions of strangers to cooperate. The book moves fast through 70,000 years, making big, debatable claims about agriculture, empire, capitalism, and happiness. It is less a history textbook than a provocative essay in chronological form, and best read as an argument rather than a reference.”
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