5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Hungarian-American businessman — co-founder and CEO of Intel — who coined 'Only the Paranoid Survive' and created the OKR management system — the most operationally excellent technology CEO of the semiconductor era.
Hungarian-American businessman who survived the Holocaust, fled Communism, and became Intel's third employee — rising to CEO (1987–98) — turning it into the world's dominant semiconductor company; he wrote High Output Management and Only the Paranoid Survive — among the most influential management books ever written.
American chemist and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel — and author of Moore's Law (1965), the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years — making him the scientist whose observation became the most important technology roadmap in history.
Andy Grove's 1983 guide to managing technical organizations — defining management output as the sum of team output plus the output of teams you influence, the one-on-one meeting as the primary management tool, and leverage as the key concept for manager productivity.
Michael Malone's 2014 biography of Intel covering Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove — the three leaders who built Intel from a startup to the dominant semiconductor company.