Summary
Unlike most popular management books, this one offers many practical actions drawn from Grove’s experience as CEO of Intel. Its core idea is that the output of a manager is the output of the organisational units under his or her supervision or influence.
Three key practices to improve your output as a manager:
- Think of the work as production operations
- Focus on high managerial leverage activities
- Use the sports analogy
Offshoot Sparks
We are the sole proprietors of our careers
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You must manage your career and retain individual competitive advantages. Nobody owes you a career.
It is incredibly pertinent to us who work in technology today - even though the book is over 35 years old.
References
- Grove, A.S. and Verlag Franz Vahlen Gmbh (2019). High Output Management. Von der Fähigkeit, Unternehmen erfolgreich zu führen. München Vahlen, Franz.