Book Titles

Only the Paranoid Survive
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

By Andrew Grove

Year Published: 1996
ISBN-13: 978-0385483827
Categories: Crisis, Leadership, Survival

97 Quotes Found

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Only the Paranoid Survive:

…speak and answer questions as often as possible; while it may seem like you’re repeating yourself, in reality you will be reinforcing a strategic message.

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Only the Paranoid Survive:

What used to be referred to as ‘managing by walking around’ has to a large extent been supplanted by letting your fingers do the walking on the keyboard.

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…[staff], they themselves, every one of them, needs to change to be more in tune with the mandates of the new environment.

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Only the Paranoid Survive:

Resist the temptation to do what’s easy… Communicating strategic change in an interactive fashion is not easy. But it is absolutely necessary.

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If the actions are dynamic, if top management is able to alternately let chaos reign and then rein in chaos, such a dialectic can be very productive.

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An organization that has a culture that can deal with these two phases – debate (chaos reigns) and a determined march (chaos reined in) – is a powerful, adaptive organization.

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Only the Paranoid Survive:

…when ’10X’ forces are upon us, the choice is taking on these changes or accepting an inevitable decline, which is no choice at all.

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