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21 " You can be the subject of a strategic inflection point but you can also be the cause of one "
― Andrew S. Grove , Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation
22 " It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one "
23 " Remember that by saying “yes”—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying “no” to something else. "
― Andrew S. Grove , High Output Management
24 " Here I’d like to introduce the concept of leverage, which is the output generated by a specific type of work activity. An activity with high leverage will generate a high level of output; an activity with low leverage, a low level of output. "
25 " We must recognize that no amount of formal planning can anticipate changes such as globalization and the information revolution we’ve referred to above. Does that mean that you shouldn’t plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event. "
26 " In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not "
27 " Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers. "
28 " My day always ends when I’m tired and ready to go home, not when I’m done. I am never done. "
29 " As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again "
30 " Selectivity - the determination to choose what we will attempt to getdone and what we won't - is the only way out of the panic thatexcessive demands on our time can create. "
― Andrew S. Grove
31 " The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise "
32 " Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. "
33 " Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos. "
34 " Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy Grove, CEO, Intel "
35 " [..] in the work of the soft professions, it becomes very difficult to distinguish between output and activity. And as noted, stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. "
36 " To get acceptable quality at the lowest cost, it is vitally important to reject defective material at a stage where its accumulated value is at the lowest possible level. Thus, as noted, we are better off catching a bad raw egg than a cooked one, and screening out our college applicant before he visits Intel. In short, reject before investing further value. "
37 " Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not. "
38 " a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end "
39 " While the story is unique to Intel, the lessons, I believe, are universal "
40 " If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider’s intellectual objectivity. They must do what they need to do to get through the strategic inflection point unfettered by any emotional attachment to the past. That’s what Gordon and I had to do when we figuratively went out the door, stomped out our cigarettes and returned to do the job. "