How “High Output Management” became a cult classic in Silicon Valley

I've read many startup/management books the last few years and I keep going back to High Output Management [1]. Andy Grove has really great insights about managerial leverage, influence, planning, the purpose of and how to hold meetings, and motivation vs. control. His perspective on one-on-ones has been especially useful as we scale.

[1] If you don't have time to read the whole book, I've taken some pretty detailed notes at http://charles.io/high-output-management/ :)

There's a very precious type of statement: the kind that is really hard to come up with for the first time, but it is obvious when you hear it for the first time. It makes you say, "oh, of course!"

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

"High Output Management" has an extremely high density of these statements.

Andy had great vision. Predicted the battle for eyeballs where entertainment consumption soul transition from TVs to computing devices and that the biggest consumers would be kids, rather than people doing work.

It definitely has some nice ideas, but it's very mechanical and dry. It lacks heart when it comes the people side... There's only so much you can get out of people when they are just subordinates to you.