High Output Management

Summary

This book presents many actionable management insights drawn from Grove’s experience as CEO of Intel, with the core idea being: “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:

1. Think of the work as production operations
2. Focus on high managerial leverage activities
3. Use the sports analogy

One piece of advice in the preface struck me:

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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.