Word: groves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though no one talks of retirement (Grove considered it in 1987 but changed his mind), the CEO is building a management legacy. Last spring the company tapped Craig Barrett, a former Stanford materials-science professor and longtime Intel executive, as the new president and Grove's successor. And behind Barrett is a chain of bright, driven engineers all lusting for the top spot. Meet intense contenders like Intel V.P.s Paul Otellini and Sean Maloney, and you'll have little worry about a leadership vacuum. Chairman emeritus Moore sometimes comes to the office, looks around and says he sheepishly thinks...
...Grove isn't going anywhere. He is as engaged as anyone else at the company. After 8 on most nights, after even the diehards have cleared out of the office, Grove's cubicle still glows against the window. Rock, who has known Grove for 30 years, puts the persistent passion down to a calm inner knowledge. "Andy has been exactly the same person. He hasn't changed. That's the beauty of it. He has no airs." That Grove could remain still in the midst of such a turbulent business is perhaps the best explanation of his success. Other companies...
...vibrant. Grove is filled with laughter and an eager joy. He is a compassionate man, with a face that seems most relaxed when it's tucked into a smile. His younger daughter recalls her disco-theme wedding reception last summer, when her dad grabbed her cape and a friend's crown and headed out to the dance floor with a big Grove grin. There, in front of family and friends, was Andras Grof in a silver-lame cape and rhinestone tiara groving to Le Freak as around the world, Intel plants silently cranked away to his rhythm. What were...
Back in his school days, when Grove was studying fluid dynamics, he might have been able to tell you. As a young chemist, Grove had to master probability theory--it was the only way to predict how some molecules and atoms will behave. One of the ideas that holds probability theory together is that it is possible to understand the odds of an enormously complex event as a series of yes-or-no questions. The theory works by taking the most complicated series of events and boiling them into binary choices: either this can happen or that can happen. This...
...about 1 in 10 2400[exponent]. It's a big number, but figure the odds on this: a young Hungarian boy either survives scarlet fever or he doesn't. He either goes to a concentration camp or he doesn't. He either escapes the Russians or he doesn't. Grove, who believes he is good, also suspects he's been amazingly lucky. And if you're trying to understand why his power hasn't bred arrogance, it's because most of the time, when he takes a look at his life, Andy Grove thinks he's the guy who flipped...