About the author
Andrew Grove was a Hungarian-born American engineer, author, and business leader who escaped communist Hungary and became an early employee, president, and chief executive of Intel. His career spanned the company's shift from memory to microprocessors.
High Output Management turns manufacturing and executive experience into a system for managerial leverage, meetings, indicators, training, and task-relevant maturity. Only the Paranoid Survive later focused on strategic inflection points.
Where to start
Start with High Output Management for Grove's operating system, especially the definition of managerial output as the work produced by a team and the teams it influences.