Book · Book (~210 pages)

Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove · Andrew S. Grove (Penguin Random House) Paid Intermediate

Intel's former CEO defines the "strategic inflection point," the moment a real shift changes the fundamentals of a business, and shows how to tell it from ordinary noise. You get a practitioner's eye for the difference between a blip and a change you must act on. It is grounded in the hard calls he made running Intel.

• A strategic inflection point changes the fundamentals, a fad does not.
• The signal often looks like noise until it is almost too late.
• Test whether a change alters the basis of competition.