The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
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A must read classic because of the importance of HP to world business

A decent book but could have told more about the company

Nice guys sometimes win....

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Hewlett Packard's Rise to the Top

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
David Packard
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In a dry fashion, Packard tells the true story of the mighty Hewlett-Packard Company: Two college buddies begin a partnership by producing an audio oscillator in a Palo Alto garage in 1938 and wind up 60 years later with a $25-billion-dollar electronics company on their hands. He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones. Packard chalks up success to many things, including government contracts during wartime, but mostly to the company's management outlook ("The HP Way"), which champions openness, honesty, and flexibility throughout the organization. Entrepreneurs and technologists alike will be interested in this journey of an American giant. Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.

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Much more personal than standard corporate histories, David Packard's The HP Way provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration for would–be entrepreneurs. This bestselling classic joins the Collins Business Essentials line–up with a new Note from Steve Jobs.

From a one–car–garage company to a multibillion–dollar industry, the rise of Hewlett–Packard is an extraordinary tale of vision, innovation and hard work. Conceived in 1939, Hewlett–Packard earned success not only as a result of its engineering know–how and cutting–edge product ideas, but also because of the unique management style it developed – a way of doing things called 'the HP way'.

Decades before today's creative management trends, Hewlett–Packard invented such strategies as 'walk–around management', 'flextime', and 'quality cycles'. Always sensitive to the needs of its customers and responsive to employee input, Hewlett–Packard earned massive steady growth that far outshone its competitors' vacillating fortunes, even with radically different products from those responsible for its initial boom.

For entrepreneurs and managers alike, the wisdom found in these pages is invaluable if they want their businesses to gain steady growth and consistent success.

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A must read classic because of the importance of HP to world business.......2007-10-09

This is a wonderful business classic that should be read and studied by everyone interested in business. David Packard and Bill Hewlett created one of the great American companies and that alone is worth knowing. That it is one of the great foundations of Silicon Valley is another reason that you need to know this story. However, as far as I am concerned, the most important reason to know this story is the set of principles these two men used in founding, building, and running their company.

While they were technically brilliant men, they were also geniuses in gathering and grooming talent. However, their ability to inspire amazing loyalty in their employees is something that seems all but lost in our modern age of disposable firms and transient employment. They pioneered open plan offices (few walls and no doors), management by walking around, and much more. They had profit sharing from the very beginning. Not only did they have annual company picnics, they also bought a camp for use by employees. I know there are many reasons for the transition to where we are now, but I still have to ask if we really are better off today than we were then. Well, are we?

The stories about the development of various products are all interesting, but the stories are all in the service of illustrating the principles he is trying to get across. His emphasis on conservative financing is well aware of the use many companies make of leverage. The rejection of Wall Street's focus on the present quarter is heartfelt, and primacy of sound business principles and corporate culture resonate strongly in our time and its emphasis on simply winning in any way possible. The pictures also add to the story.

The recent book, "Bill & Dave" provides background material and fills in some of the gaps you will notice in reading this book, and I recommend it, as well. Still, this is the original and written by the man himself (well, by his staff with his supervision, right?) and deserves our attention.

A must read. Really.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

A decent book but could have told more about the company.......2006-12-21

Hewlett Packard is a now disgraced company that has severe problems to face in the future but this book will take you back to the HP of old. It tells how a printer company was developed to fill a need and the way in which they did business. I am normally not a fan of these books (The .... Way) but this one did a good job. It is short and to the point filling in the gap of an interesting company. It is worth a quick glance over if you are interested in the tech industry to see how a company should be run.

Nice guys sometimes win...........2006-10-17

Bill Hewlett & Dave Packard were two nice guys who worked hard, played fair, and won. An interesting tale with some good homespun advice.

What Happened?.......2006-10-05

I've read through this book 5 times and I don't recall the part where Mr Packard says to spy on the board of directors!

Hewlett Packard's Rise to the Top.......2006-05-26

Hewlett- Packard is a giant in the PC industry and one of the best- known names in high tech. Most every business in America owns at least one product from this company. From its humble beginnings in a Palo Alto garage, HP has grown into a massive electronics machine, racking up more than $45 billion in revenue for the 2001 year.

As far as the company itself goes, Hewlett- Packard is definitely a success story and it's a respectable company from most every standpoint. William Hewlett and Dave Packard deserve credit for running an ethical organization that pays attention to its surroundings and strives to treat others fairly. However, this book, "The HP Way", is somewhat lacking in its coverage of the company and as a source of business inspiration. Dave Packard wrote the book by himself, with a little help from two friends who provided some editing assistance. Packard might be outstanding as a businessman, but he is not a professional writer. And his choice of two amateur editors doesn't help matters. He really should have hired a professional to help him compose this book.

Packard gets a little sidetracked at times, too. The book starts out as a timeline, recounting important events and achievements from the past. Then, it strays from that course and starts talking about business planning and the ingredients for success. There's nothing wrong with this approach to writing a book, but Packard doesn't write in a smooth, continuous way. Instead, he reminisces about his times with Hewlett- Packard as though he is trying to cram as many tidbits of facts into one short book as he possibly can. Instead of providing the reader with stories about business struggles, personality conflicts, and resolutions, the book jumps around and includes snippets from events in the past. Because of this, there is no suspense at all in this book. It's basically just a summary of facts.

Hewlett- Packard is a very large U.S. corporation, with a strong presence in both domestic and foreign markets. This book is just over 200 pages in length. In my opinion, this is far too little space to adequately cover an industry behemoth like Hewlett- Packard. The large- size print makes the book a quick read, but it also contributes to its inadequate coverage of the company.

Dave Packard, and his partner William Hewlett, are legendary in the high tech business world. They built a huge corporate empire, starting with a simple electronic device assembled in a garage. The HP Way attempts to present the story of Hewlett- Packard and its rise to the top, but it fails to keep the interest of the reader, due to its unfocused style and lack of continuity. A corporation like Hewlett- Packard deserves better.

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In 1939, two college friends named Bill Hewlett and David Packard decided to start their own company out of a one car garage in Palo Alto, California. Now, Bill Hewlett and David Packard's wildly successful approach to business is immoralized in The HP Way. Listen to this book and learn how they used the openness to change, the virtue of sustained hard work, and working environments that foster intense individual creativity to create one of America's largest companies. Managers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders will find The HP Way a fascinating - and enlighting - addition to the shelves of business literature.

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First I would like to mention that this book is still in print, but under a different tittle. It is called "Wormwood."

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