ABSTRACT
Andrew Grove is chief executive officer of Intel, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors. Like his younger contemporary Bill Gates, Grove has succeeded in building an organisation that has survived and prospered during a time of great turmoil in the information technology industry, when thousands of other companies have gone to the wall. He is also a thoughtful and persuasive writer on management, who draws on a wealth of personal experience of both success and failure to develop his ideas on leadership and organisation. In an era when many management books take an optimistic, ‘gung-ho’ approach, providing recipes for success which anyone can follow, Grove takes a darker view. Management in an age of turmoil and change is hard, and is getting harder. The title of his best book sums up his philosophy: Only the Paranoid Survive (1996).
