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.

When products and services become largely indistinguishable from each other, all there is by the way of competitive advantage is time.

First, everything happens faster. Second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else.

These changes lead to a less kind, less gentle, and less predictable workplace.

as a manager in such a workplace, you need to develop a higher tolerance for disorder. Now, you should still not accept disorder. In fact, you should do you...

You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected.

“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”

As a micro CEO, you can improve your own and your group’s performance and productivity, whether or not the rest of the company follows suit.