Andy Grove built the vocabulary modern tech management still speaks—OKRs, one-on-ones, strategic inflection points, and “only the paranoid survive.” Faster Than Normal’s Intel and Grove playbooks map those ideas to product transitions; this list is the primary shelf behind them.
Core Books
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove · Book · Amazon
The essential text: managerial output, meetings that work, performance management, and leverage.
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove · Book · Amazon
Inflection points, signals of strategic change, and Intel’s memory-to-processor pivot as case law.
Swimming Across
Andrew S. Grove · Book
Memoir of escape, immigration, and formation—context for Grove’s discipline and fear of complacency.
Intel History and Strategy Context
Intel corporate history / strategic pivot accounts
Various historians · Essay
Intel’s timeline plus academic articles on process technology competition complement Grove’s own telling.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Book · Amazon
Horowitz channels Grove explicitly—wartime/peacetime CEO frame as descendant lesson set.
Talks, Interviews, and Classroom
Stanford / Berkeley Grove lectures (archive video)
Andy Grove · Speech
Classroom Q&A reveals blunt practicality—watch several clips to internalise cadence.
Charlie Rose interview (historical)
Charlie Rose · Interview
Long-form television format on management philosophy and Intel era.
Adjacent Operators
Certain to Win
Chet Richards · Book · Amazon
Boyd-style manoeuvre and tempo—intellectual cousin to Grove’s paranoia about competitive shifts.