Andy Grove

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.

Created the management framework for technical organizations and the theory of strategic inflection points — High Output Management's concept of management output as the sum of the output of your team (plus the teams you influence) and the one-on-one meeting as the primary management tool defined how engineering organizations are managed; Only the Paranoid Survive's Strategic Inflection Point concept prepared Intel for the PC and internet transitions.