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Very interesting that you should mention "Innovator's Delimma". I remember when Andy Grove made that required reading for all of executive staff, and divisions
by dbcurtis 9y ago
Very interesting that you should mention "Innovator's Delimma". I remember when Andy Grove made that required reading for all of executive staff, and divisions had to incorporate the thought process in their plans.
You are right that this is showing classic signs of not giving innovative business units enough runway to find their product-market fit. That's really hard to do given Intel's culture.
Craig Barrett did a lot of damage. One Intel mid-level manager described him as a pinata. "Who ever hits him the hardest gets the most candy." So managers reported synthetic disasters in order to get more funding. Paul Otellini was great, I have huge respect for him, but his tenure was too short lived. Otellini understood how to build a market.
- dmix 9y agoThat's an interesting backstory, I was not familiar with the fact Andy Grove made it required reading. It really should be for every tech company management, regardless of it's age. The farther a company gets from it's early roots the harder it gets for them to recreate the 'early days'. Unless they get a shake up in management. But the typical people good at startup culture would get killed pretty quickly in bigco corporate culture.