Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point, which can be set off by almost anything: mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet, man-aged right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be an opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever.

Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point, which can be set off by almost anything: mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet, man-aged right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be an opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever. Grove underscores his message by examining his own record of success and failure,including how he navigated the events of the Pentium flaw, which threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, and how he has dealt with the explosions in growth of the Internet. The work of a lifetime, Only the Paranoid Survive is a classic of managerial and leadership skills.

Preface: Only the Paranoid Survive

  "Sooner or later, something fundamental in your

  business world will change."

Chapter 1: Something Changed

  "New rules prevailed now-and they were

  powerful enough to cost us nearly half a billion dollars."

     What Happened to Us

     "That Guy Is Always the Last to Know"

Chapter 2: A "10X" Change

  "What such a transition does to a business is

  profound, and how the business manages this transition

  deterrsines its future."

     The Six Forces Affecting a Business

     A "10X" Force

     The Strategic Inflection Point

Chapter 3: The Morphing of the Computer Industry

 "Not only has the basis of computing changed, the

 basis of competition has changed too."

     Before the Strategic Inflection Point

     After the Strategic Inflection Point

     Winners and Losers

     The New Rules of the Horizontal Industry

Chapter 4: They're Everywhere

  "Strategic inflection points are not a phenomenon of

  the high-tech industry, nor are they something that only

  happens to the other guy."

     "10X" Change: Competition

         WoI-Mort: An overwhelming force in town

         Next: The software, company

     "lOX" Change: Technology

         5ound takes over silent movies

         Upheaval in the shipping industry

         The PC revolution: A tale of denial

     "IOX" Change: Customers

         Changing tastes in cars

         Attitude shifts

         The double whammy in supercomputers

     "IOX" Change: Suppliers

         Airlines flex their muscles

         The end of second sourcing

     "IOX" Change: Complementors

     "IOX" Change: Regulation

         The demise of patent medicines

         The reordering of telecommunications

         Privatization

Chapter 5: "Why Not Do It Ourselves?".

 "The memory business crisis-and how we dealt with it-is

 how I learned the meaning of a strategic inflection point."

     Entering Our Strategic Inflection Point

     The Route to Survival

     Looking Back

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