Of all the people I've met in 25 years in the computer business, the one I most admire is Andy Grove. Not only was he a brilliant businessman, he had an astonishing grasp of the nuts and bolts of the operation down to the lowest level -- and he also had the academic's ability to look at the whole structure from outside and understand how it worked. Most CEO's of giant corporations can manage one of those, and some two, but all three is rare.
That makes Andy Grove "the best model we have for leading a business in the 21st century," according to a long piece in the December 12 issue of Fortune magazine: The Education of Andy Grove.
Disappointinlgy, there's little that's new in the article, but if you haven't been following Grove or Intel for 25 years, it's a very readable round-up.
