- Summary
- Brilliant, brave, and willing to defy conventional wisdom, Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel during its years of explosive growth, is on the shortlist of America's most admired businesspeople. Grove gave Tedlow unprecedented access to his private papers, along with wide-ranging interviews and access to friends and key business associates. The result is not just a life story but a fascinating analysis of how Grove attacks problems. Born a Hungarian Jew in 1936, András István Gróf survived the Nazis only to face the Soviet invasion of his country. He fled to America at age twenty, studied engineering, and arrived in Silicon Valley just in time to become the third employee of Intel. As talented as he was as an engineer, Grove became an even better manager. Tedlow shows us exactly how that penniless immigrant taught himself to lead a major corporation through some of the toughest challenges in the history of business.--From publisher description.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Tedlow, Richard S.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Portfolio, 2006
- Locale
- United States
États-Unis
- Contents
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Preface : The trip you are about to take
Introduction
1. Andy Grove returns to Hungary
2. Grove family, Hungary, and the early years of World War II
3. Coming of age in Stalinist Hungary
4. Andy Grove in America
5. "A hotheaded 30-year-old running around like a drunken rat," or Andy Grove comes to the Valley of the Heart's Delight
6. Off and limping
7. Orchestrated brilliance
8. Long and winding road
9. Andy Grove in 1986 : at work and at home
10. Valley of Death
11. PC is it
12. Awesome Intel
13. Intel inside
14. We almost killed the company
15. Cultivating the creosote bush
16. That championship season
17. Buck stopped there : Bill Gates and Andy Grove
18. Wintel
19. Pentium launch : Intel meets the Internet
20. Life is what happens while you're making other plans
21. Darwinian device
22. What are you paranoid about these days?
23. Year of decision
24. Frozen in silicon
25. Andy Grove
ex-CEO
26. In think that experiment has been run
26. I think that experiment has been run
27. Andy and the Board
28. Bubble bursts
29. Outside Intel
30 Still swimming
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-553) and index.
Preface : The trip you are about to take -- Introduction -- 1. Andy Grove returns to Hungary -- 2. Grove family, Hungary, and the early years of World War II -- 3. Coming of age in Stalinist Hungary -- 4. Andy Grove in America -- 5. "A hotheaded 30-year-old running around like a drunken rat," or Andy Grove comes to the Valley of the Heart's Delight -- 6. Off and limping -- 7. Orchestrated brilliance -- 8. Long and winding road -- 9. Andy Grove in 1986 : at work and at home -- 10. Valley of Death -- 11. PC is it -- 12. Awesome Intel -- 13. Intel inside -- 14. We almost killed the company -- 15. Cultivating the creosote bush -- 16. That championship season -- 17. Buck stopped there : Bill Gates and Andy Grove -- 18. Wintel -- 19. Pentium launch : Intel meets the Internet -- 20. Life is what happens while you're making other plans -- 21. Darwinian device -- 22. What are you paranoid about these days? -- 23. Year of decision -- 24. Frozen in silicon -- 25. Andy Grove -- ex-CEO -- 26. In think that experiment has been run -- 26. I think that experiment has been run -- 27. Andy and the Board -- 28. Bubble bursts -- 29. Outside Intel -- 30 Still swimming -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
