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Thank you so much for this comment, detail and link. I was not aware of this aspect of his management style. The current CEO of my company has spoken highly of Andy Grove (I believe he was at Intel during Grove's tenure) and learning these details has helped me to see some similarities in my own company leadership.

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Grove is, in fact, mostly responsible for the current problems at Intel.

Because of Grove's management style, information is ammunition--you do not share it. This is anathema to problems that need heavy R&D to solve.

The corollary to this is that if you know someone is making a mistake, you let them as it improves your political position.

If you want to go even deeper, I recommend Andy Grove’s books “High output management” and “Only the paranoid survive”.

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