High output management
"The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be summed up in a single word: managing. In High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove, former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel, shares his perspective on how to build and run a c...
| Main Author: | Grove, Andrew S. (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Horowitz, Ben, 1966- (writer of foreword.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The breakfast factory. The basics of production : delivering a breakfast (or a college graduate, or a compiler, or a convicted criminal ...) ; Managing the breakfast factory
- Part II. Management is a team game. Managerial leverage ; Meetings : the medium of managerial work ; Decisions, decisions ; Planning : today's actions for tomorrow's output
- Part III. Team of teams. The breakfast factory goes national ; Hybrid organizations ; Dual reporting ; Modes of control
- Part IV. The players. The sports analogy ; Task-relevant maturity ; Performance appraisal : manager as judge and jury ; Two difficult tasks ; Compensation as task-relevant feedback ; Why training is the boss's job.