“While the story is unique to Intel, the lessons, I believe, are universal”
― Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
― Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.”
― Only the Paranoid Survive
― Only the Paranoid Survive
“It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one”
― Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
― Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
“People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early”
― Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
― Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
“If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider’s intellectual objectivity. They must do what they need to do to get through the strategic inflection point unfettered by any emotional attachment to the past. That’s what Gordon and I had to do when we figuratively went out the door, stomped out our cigarettes and returned to do the job.”
― Only the Paranoid Survive
― Only the Paranoid Survive
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