Great books & ideas · Andrew Grove · 1983

High Output Management — the key ideas

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A manager’s handbook from Intel: a manager’s output is the output of their team.

The key ideas

Your output is your team’s output

A manager’s job is to raise what the whole team produces — through information, decisions, coaching and removing obstacles.

One-to-ones are high-leverage

Regular one-to-one meetings, led by the team member’s agenda, surface problems early and build the relationship.

Delegate with monitoring

Delegation is not abandonment; you stay involved at the level the person’s experience with the task requires.

The criticism

• Written for a large, fast-moving technology company; some advice fits badly in small, creative or volunteer settings.
• Its focus on output can crowd out the human side unless you add it back on purpose.

A real-world example

The situation

A new team lead is doing most of the work herself and her team feels unused.

The idea applied

She starts weekly one-to-ones where each person brings the agenda, and hands over one task each with check-ins. Her own workload drops and the team grows.

Practise it

If you lead anyone, hold one conversation this week where they set the agenda.

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