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Unfortunately, that's exactly not the premise of this otherwise fascinating treatise, in which Grove offers up a readable user's manual for the new digital economy, plus a how-to for managers worried about their business and, by extension, their career. This book is about finding rational ways to survive what Grove calls the "10x"--tenfold--factors that can threaten to change everything about a business in an instant. Just as the car turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove...
...Grove argues that change can be managed if CEOs are smart enough to listen to their employees, who usually spot such shifts on their purchasing orders eons before boardroom execs see the impact on the bottom line. And to help filter real, important change from the vagaries that trigger expensive false starts, Grove offers a useful primer on what to look for. His deep understanding of the history of technology and his engineer's perspective on scientific revolutions make him a companionable guide. Among his "tests" for recognizing approaching shifts: imagine you have one silver bullet to place...
...surprising smell emanates from Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma...
Good fortune, of course, hasn't been the only thing that helped Grove build Intel into one of America's most profitable corporations (while pocketing a few hundred million of his own in the process), but the inescapable--albeit unstated--message of this book is that Grove's tremendous success owes a substantial debt to fate. In a high-tech economy where sudden change is the norm, the book reminds us that it takes more than a good head for business to survive...
...Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and location subject to haggling) to Pacific Lumber. If Hurwitz is satisfied, he passes title to Headwaters, the 425-acre Elk Head grove and a logged-over moonscape between, totaling 7,500 acres. If not, PL's fallers start their chainsaws...