Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point, which can be set off by almost anything: mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet, man-aged right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be an opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever.
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point, which can be set off by almost anything: mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet, man-aged right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be an opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever. Grove underscores his message by examining his own record of success and failure,including how he navigated the events of the Pentium flaw, which threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, and how he has dealt with the explosions in growth of the Internet. The work of a lifetime, Only the Paranoid Survive is a classic of managerial and leadership skills.
Preface: Only the Paranoid Survive
"Sooner or later, something fundamental in your
business world will change."
Chapter 1: Something Changed
"New rules prevailed now-and they were
powerful enough to cost us nearly half a billion dollars."
What Happened to Us
"That Guy Is Always the Last to Know"
Chapter 2: A "10X" Change
"What such a transition does to a business is
profound, and how the business manages this transition
deterrsines its future."
The Six Forces Affecting a Business
A "10X" Force
The Strategic Inflection Point
Chapter 3: The Morphing of the Computer Industry
"Not only has the basis of computing changed, the
basis of competition has changed too."
Before the Strategic Inflection Point
After the Strategic Inflection Point
Winners and Losers
The New Rules of the Horizontal Industry
Chapter 4: They're Everywhere
"Strategic inflection points are not a phenomenon of
the high-tech industry, nor are they something that only
happens to the other guy."
"10X" Change: Competition
WoI-Mort: An overwhelming force in town
Next: The software, company
"lOX" Change: Technology
5ound takes over silent movies
Upheaval in the shipping industry
The PC revolution: A tale of denial
"IOX" Change: Customers
Changing tastes in cars
Attitude shifts
The double whammy in supercomputers
"IOX" Change: Suppliers
Airlines flex their muscles
The end of second sourcing
"IOX" Change: Complementors
"IOX" Change: Regulation
The demise of patent medicines
The reordering of telecommunications
Privatization
Chapter 5: "Why Not Do It Ourselves?".
"The memory business crisis-and how we dealt with it-is
how I learned the meaning of a strategic inflection point."
Entering Our Strategic Inflection Point
The Route to Survival
Looking Back
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