Chapter 5: Prepare the Organization for Drastic Change

"Most companies don't die because they are wrong ...": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency/Doubleday, 1996).

"I submit that all businesses ...": Andy Grove, Speech to the Irish Information Society Commission, September 20, 1999.

"I have a rule in my business: to see what can happen in the next ten years ...": Andy Grove, quoted in "Andy Grove on Intel: Magic or Monopoly?" Upside, October 12, 1997.

"The essence of a company like Intel is execution and strategy ...": Andy Grove, quoted in "Andy Grove on Intel: Magic or Monopoly?" Upside, October 12, 1997.

"You execute on the wrong strategy, you sink ...": Andy Grove, quoted in "Andy Grove on Intel: Magic or Monopoly?" Upside, October 12, 1997.

"The need for a different memory strategy ...": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 88.

"If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO ...": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 89.

"We had become marginalized by our Japanese competitors....": Andy Grove, Interview with John Heilemann, Wired, June 2001, p. 144.

"For us senior managers, it took the crisis of an economic cycle ...": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 97.

"Something has changed, something big, something significant ...": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 20.

"We managers like to talk about change ...": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 27.

"We were wandering in the valley of death....": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 89.

"Strategic inflection points offer promises as well as threats....": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 76.

"Businesses are about creating change for other businesses....": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 21.

"I attribute Intel's ability to sustain success to being constantly on the alert ...": Andy Grove, Chat transcript, October 7, 1996.

"It is best when senior management recognizes and accepts the inevitability ...": Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 132.

Under Preparing Your Organization, the three bold statements in the numbered list are Grove's own wording, from Only the Paranoid Survive, pp. 107, 108.

"The prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constantly ...": Under Preparing Your Organization, the three bold statements in the numbered list are Grove's own wording, from Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 3.

"Getting through the strategic inflection point required enduring a period of confusion ...": Under Preparing Your Organization, the three bold statements in the numbered list are Grove's own wording, from Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 164.

"The dilemma is that you can't suddenly start experimenting ...": Under Preparing Your Organization, the three bold statements in the numbered list are Grove's own wording, from Only the Paranoid Survive, p. 130.

"When you are in a strategic transformation ...": Andy Grove.