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==== Only the Paranoid Survive ==== {{quote box|align=right|width=25em|bgcolor = Cornsilk|quote=Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.|source=Andy Grove, former CEO of [[Intel]]<ref name=FT/><ref name=Grove1>Grove, Andrew. ''Only the Paranoid Survive'', Doubleday (1996).</ref><ref name=IW/> }} As CEO, he wanted his managers to always encourage experimentation and prepare for changes, making a case for the value of paranoia in business. He became known for his guiding motto: "Only the paranoid survive," and wrote a management book with the same title, published in 1996. As a result, he urged senior executives to allow people to test new techniques, new products, new sales channels, and new customers, to be ready for unexpected shifts in business or technology. Biographer Jeremy Byman observed that Grove "was the one person at Intel who refused to let the company rest on its laurels."<ref name=Byman>Byman, Jeremy. ''Andrew Grove and the Intel Corporation'', Morgan Reynolds (1999), p. 65.</ref> Grove explains his reasoning: <blockquote>A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.<ref name=Esquire/></blockquote>
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