Topic
management
- Modes Of Control
An interesting idea from Andy Grove’s High Output Management.
- The CUA Factor
From the latest issue of Res Extensa: thoughts on Andy Grove's idea of "modes of control", from High Output Management: Thinking about this in the context of my own work, I can map past hardships and bad business deci…
- How to Think About Your Competitors
For any company, keeping track of your position in the competitive landscape is an important element of making the right decisions. When I think about competitors, I think about them separately as "direct" vs. "indire…
- Weekend Reading: Collaborative Enterprise, Algorithms, and Fifth-Gen Management
💼 Collaborative Enterprise Elad Gil describes the trend of continuing consumerization of enterprise software. 🤖 Seeing Like an Algorithm Part 2 in Eugene Wei's series on TikTok. See part 1. 🏫 Fifth Generation Manag…
- Talk Notes: Spolsky on Pluralism
One of my favorite evening activities is watching talks, interviews, and presentations on YouTube. I often take notes on these for myself, so this is an experiment in brushing up those notes and sharing them publicly.…
- Weekend Reading: Attention, Hill Climbing, and Enforcing Culture
🧠 To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight For a long time, because attention seemed so intricately tied up with consciousness and other complex functions, scientists assumed that it was first and fo…
- Managerial Leverage
Andy Grove is widely respected as an authority figure on business management. Best known for his work at Intel during the 1980s, his book High Output Management is regularly cited as one of the best in the genre of bu…
- Modes of Control
I've nearly finished reading Andy Grove's High Output Management. Grove was the one of the founders and CEO of Intel, especially famous for his leadership of the company's shift from design and fabrication of memory t…
- How Google Sets Goals
I’ve been thinking and reading more about OKRs and how I might be able to implement them effectively — both professionally and personally. The idea of having clearly defined goals over bounded timelines is something w…