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High Output Management

Disciplines:
management
semiconductors/intel
engineering/engineering organizations
grove

Summary

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.

Core Contribution

Creates the vocabulary of engineering management — Grove's concepts (management leverage, the one-on-one, task-relevant maturity, the role of a manager as a coach and trainer) became the canonical framework for how software companies manage engineers.

Historical Influences

Andy Grove Intel management experience

Intellectual Lineage

Andy Grove Random House

Allied Works

The Effective Executive Only the Paranoid Survive

Contemporaries & Peers

The Effective Executive The Manager's Path

Minds Influenced

Engineering management Lenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

High Output Management Management leverageTask-relevant maturityGrove as engineering management

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