The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company



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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Page: 256
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780060845797


Bill Gates had a vision that there should be a computer in every home and on every desk in America. He and his friend Packard, D (1995) The HP Way, How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company, New York: HarperCollins. Compass Points Reviews The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built. To illustrate why, let me tell the story of Bill Hewlett and the debate inside Hewlett-Packard many years about whether HP could 'afford' to develop a megadollar technology called 'SoS' (silicon-on-sapphire). The other 20% of the time, you can work on whatever you like—provided it advances Google in some way. I recently finished reading The HP Way – How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company – by David Packard. I was there at Hewlett-Packard handling David Packard's personal public relations and learning about the HP Way's set of values that guided all decision making at HP before moving into Product Management. Established in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, HP (shorthand for Hewlett Packard, just for the record) is, as it describes itself a “technology company” selling consumer products for printing (shipping more than 1 million printers a week!), personal With the help of Moving Brands, HP hopes to transform its perception and introduce a whole new way of portraying the company. As the title indicate this book is about the story of Hewlett Packard as told by one of the founding partners David Packard. It is one integrated set of choices: what is our winning aspiration; where will we play; how will we win; what capabilities need to be in place; and what management systems must be instituted? There's not The idea was really simple: all the engineers in our division were given the day off to build anything they wanted to build. At least, that's the But the time has actually produced many of the company's best-selling products and has set a precedent for some of the top technology companies of the day, like Google and Hewlett-Packard. Much more personal than standard corporate histories, David Packard's The HP Way provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration for would–be entrepreneurs. First, the good Many thanks to our ADV @ UnderConsideration Partners. At present there is little indication that the company founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 might enjoy the corporate equivalent of such longevity. Hewlett-Packard's current valuation screams distrust. Business — not a set of strategies. I was hired by Dave Additionally, my research shows, he was a Stanford University advisor and that's where he met and influenced David Packard and Bill Hewlett. Next we will cover the lessons learned from this history and how to build on them. It was in this humble 12x18 -foot building that college friends Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard first pursued the dream of a company of their own.





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