By Charles H. House
The company ethos defined during this book—with its emphasis on bottom-up innovation and enough flexibility to work out effects delivered to and taken alive contained in the company—is noticeably varied from present administration "best practice." hence, whereas essentially a historical past of Hewlett-Packard, The HP Phenomenon additionally holds profound classes for engineers, managers, and organizational leaders hoping to rework their very own organizations.
"At final! The 'HP method, that the majority well-known of all company philosophies, has taken on a virtually legendary prestige. yet how did it particularly paintings? How did it make Hewlett-Packard the quickest growing to be, so much trendy, huge corporation of the final half-century? Now, vital figures in HP's historical past, Chuck apartment and Raymond expense, have eventually given us the total tale. The HP Phenomenon is the e-book now we have been anticipating: the definitive treatise on how invoice and Dave ran their mythical corporation, daily and yr to 12 months. it may be a middle textual content for generations of younger marketers and executives, a roadmap to development a very good enterprise."—Michael S. Malone, writer of Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard equipped the World's maximum Company
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I wrote a two-page letter to Bill Hewlett outlining how I’d gotten into the Navy electronics course and then I told them about what I’d taken in college and I described several of the projects I’d built with this Campus Electronics Service. ” They didn’t offer to pay my way out or anything. I had all these other offers, and HP’s was not the highest offer. It was pretty close to the lowest, but it had a nice appeal. 51 Whether it was in project-based development, hiring, or accounting, the company put its own stamp on things.
Colorado in 1912 was remote—not far from Pueblo, Colorado Springs was an upscale resort community of thirty thousand, where Packard’s parents met at Colorado College. Denver was sizable, with two hundred thousand people, but aside from it, there was only one town as large as Pueblo within six hundred miles, and only ten more within a thousand miles. A century later, Pueblo isn’t as isolated, or prominent—there are sixteen larger cities within six hundred miles, and another forty-eight within a thousand miles.
He was running the show and he could tell flat out where the money was going. These other places weaseled around. Nobody knew what was going on, and they didn’t have any plans. 37 The ethos was built in a hands-on manner. Bill and Dave were deeply and intimately involved in the operations. Both had an extremely broad range of knowledge, curiosity, and self-assurance. Neither brooked fools. Each demanded utmost integrity. Both men put enormous responsibility in the hands of their employees, and they made sure that this was understood and exercised.