#137: The Most Important Management Book Of All-Time

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, DC and DG discuss former Intel CEO Andy Grove and his book High Output Management – which just might be one of the most important management books of all-time. Plus DC shares one secret tell that will show you who your next great manager might be. Before you go leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and share the pod with your friends! Be sure to check out more insights on the Drift blog at drift.com/blog and find us on Twitter @davegerhardt, @dcancel and @seekingwisdomio. In this episode: 0:47 - Introduction of the book covered in this episode, High Output Management by Andy Grove. 1:07 - How Andy Grove has made an impact 2:28 - Why it’s important to pair your learning with a moment in time 3:05 - Main lesson of the High Output Management: be conscious of how everything you do reflects on the people who work for you. 3:30 - Additional lesson: everything you do/don’t do counts and says something about you to your team. 4:17 - Be able to model good management and leadership for your team, as perception is reality 5:01 - “The streets are watching” - your team looks to you for cues on how they should act. 5:30 - Additional lesson: A manager’s output equals the output of his organization plus the output of the neighboring organization under his influence 6:27 - The secret to getting promoted is to go beyond doing 100% of your job 7:05 - DC and DG’s bonus tip on how to spot a natural born leader and your next great manager 8:15 - Additional lesson: saying yes means saying no to something else 9:30 - Be straightforward and leave the interview gimmicks alone so as not to leave the wrong impression 10:44 - Hiring is luck, so the interview process needs to be scientific 11:53 - Management should adjust based on talent and knowledge and the Task Level Maturity approach Books mentioned in this episode: High Output Management by Andy Grove

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	And we're back.
0:05.0	We're back for an episode with the old uncle, the young nephew, and Gonzalo who's wearing a mustache.
0:13.0	Yep.
0:14.0	What are we talking about today?
0:15.0	This is one of my classic tricks, which is you send me a book, and then a couple weeks after
0:20.0	I say, we're going to talk about this book
0:22.0	on the podcast. We're talking about a classic, a classic that is taken too long. Look at that Apple Watch.
0:28.1	I talked about false beliefs today and I use Apple Watch as an example, which is right now
0:31.9	false beliefs are holding me back from buying Apple Watch. Oh, you got to get it. But that's for a separate.
0:35.9	That's for some secret. Look at secret. The Young Lion on the cover.
0:38.0	The Young Lion on the photos? Wow. 3.43 p.m., which means we got to rock. So we're going to talk about one of the all-time classic, classic books today, which is high output management. Why didn't you tell me that before? Andy Grove. Because I think spontaneous DC is my favorite DC.
0:36.0	Ah, he would have told me I would have output management by Andy Grove. Because I think Spontaneous DC is my favorite DC.
0:56.0	I want you to...
0:57.0	You would have done Jumpin' Jack.
0:59.0	Tell me why this is such a classic book to you.
1:01.0	I got notes.
1:02.0	I brought it out.
1:03.0	I broke it out recently.
1:04.0	Yeah, so Andy Grove, legendary CEO of Intel.
1:09.0	Intel.
1:10.0	Rest in peace, RIP, Andy Grove.
1:12.3	And if you read a lot of the books that we've talked about in the past, like
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Molly Sloan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Molly Sloan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.