The HP Way, David Packard
The HP Way, David Packard
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The HP Way
How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company

Author: David Packard

Narrator: Nelson Runger

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/06/1995

Synopsis

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. 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. “An unswerving chronology of the life and most good times of Hewlett-Packard, from its notional beginnings … to its luminous present.”—New York Times Book Review

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan on October 30, 2011

Incredible little book about what was once one of the best places to work. I might have been brainwashed by the old-time HPers that I used to work with, but I think the ideas in this book on how to run a company are excellent. The presentation is simple and to-the-point, with some good stories to go......more

Goodreads review by David on December 09, 2015

I read this book to better understand the culture of my new employer, the Hewlett Foundation. I ended up learning so much. Until recently I had mistakenly thought that HP was a computer company that eventually got into the printer business. I didn’t realize that HP started out as a scientific instru......more

Goodreads review by Erin on August 06, 2011

I read this in the 6th grade for a project on a famous person. Looking back I'm such a nerd. My dad worked for HP and I think was proud of ne for reading such a book!......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on October 03, 2018

"Everywhere I look I see the potential for growth, for discovery far greater than anything we have seen in the twentieth century." (David Packard, The HP Way, Page 192) David Packard, the founder of HP, autographs the founding of his company and his relationship with Bill Hewlett, the co-founder. Bot......more

Goodreads review by Omar on September 01, 2012

As the title indicate this book is about the story of Hewlett Packard as told by one of the founding partners David Packard. This book offers a corporate history of how the company started from the infamous garage into a global enterprise, but more importantly focuses on the guiding principles on wh......more

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