Book Summary | High Output Management — Andy Grove

High Output Management is a book that holds almost mythical status, recommended by figures from Ben Horowitz to Bill Campbell. Although its most recent edition is 27 years old, the advice is timeless and concise. Grove draws on his experience leading one of the technology industry’s most innovative companies, Intel, for over 20 years to bring actionable advice to the art of management.

If I did have some critical comments, they are only that the book is pitched more at middle management in larger companies than leaders of smaller ones, and some of the techniques presented are now commonplace - but neither are faults with the book itself. The former being a mismatch between my expectation and the content, and the latter being evidence of how revolutionary Grove’s management practices were at their time.

I particularly enjoyed the level of abstraction employed to discuss the often messy art of management. Grove is clearly deeply knowledgeable about management and the abstraction employed throughout — Industrial Production.

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