High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are a lot of them, and many of them are very hungry.

today’s gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.”

There is a temptation to idealize what I’ve called cultural values as a mode of control because it is so “nice,”

Let’s apply our model to the work of a new employee.

A group of managers provided me with what they thought were the best questions.

The information to be gained here tends to fall into four distinct categories.

not just what the candidate knows, but also what he did with what he knows.

Asking a candidate to handle a hypothetical situation can also enlighten you.

capabilities, skills, and values by asking you questions.