High Output Management

In this collection, High Output Management references 1 other book and is cited by 11 other books.

It draws on The Effective Executive.

It’s picked up by Measure What Matters, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and An Elegant Puzzle and 8 others.

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High Output Management is one of the most heavily cited management books in Silicon Valley, treated as foundational by an extraordinary range of authors. John Doerr built his entire OKR framework in Measure What Matters as an extension of Grove's system, while Ben Horowitz credits Grove as a personal mentor and Camille Fournier explicitly adapts Grove's leverage and output-oriented thinking for modern engineering organisations in The Manager's Path. The book's core idea -- that a manager's value is measured by the output of the teams they influence -- resonates across disciplines, from Will Larson's engineering leadership work to Eric Schmidt's account of Bill Campbell's coaching playbook.

Readers consistently praise its no-nonsense practicality, though some find it dated in its Intel-specific examples. If you manage people or want to understand what good management actually looks like at the operational level, this is the book other management authors assume you have already read.