Having met one of Andy Groves admins while on vacation, she said Andy Grove was very approachable, as long as the idea or proposal was well thought out by anyone. She said one day a junior person approached Andy Grove with just an idea while people around held their breath waiting for a reaction, and Andy Grove thought the idea was great and told the person to pick a team and implement it, taking the person by total surprise by their instant change in duties and level within the company. Truly an open mind looking for the best.Nice Exclusive.......Did they really expect Lip-Bu to stay the course and run into the iceberg?
"Tan argued that Intel’s work culture had lost the “Only the paranoid survive” ethos put in place by Andy Grove, who served as the firm’s chief executive from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, according to sources."
I argued the same last December:
In 1996 former Intel CEO Andy Grove published the renowned book “Only the Paranoid Survive” which is an inside look at Grove’s management style and experiences at Intel. The key theme for me was that Andy believed in a healthy amount of paranoia to keep leaders vigilant, proactive, and prepared for the many disruptions of the semiconductor industry. Hopefully the new Intel CEO will have a healthy amount of paranoia.
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He sat in cubicals alongside other employees iirc I have heard that one time an employee was making photocopy at Xerox machine and than grove came employee thought it was time for him to go but Andy said he will wait his turn.
That is correct, but Grove (and his successors and many other senior Intel execs) also had private conference rooms. So the cubical stories are true, but are also in reality incomplete. Which makes sense; highly confidential meetings and discussions, which senior executives have almost every day, are not going to take place on phones or in side-chairs in a cube. There are also stories about Grove and his successors having their cubes "compressed" during times when office space became over-subscribed by growth, but the conference rooms were not compressed.
