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How To Castrate A Bull: Unexpected Lessons On Risk, Growth, And Success In Business (2008)

by Dave Hitz(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0470345233 (ISBN13: 9780470345238)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Jossey-Bass

review 1: A good insight into Network Appliance and how they started. It could probably shrunk to 25% of the size but then the cost would be seen as outrageous. There are some gems in there, such as remembering to take a step back and think what the person may have been thinking or what they needed when a particular feature was developed. It is too easy to take one look now and see it as ill fitting your own personal needs, but it may have been just fine then.
review 2: Dave Hitz is currently the Chief Philosophy officer of NetApp, the no.1 company to work for, according to the Forbes magazine in 2009. He was one of the founders of NetApp, a programmer, tech architect, marketing evangelist and VP of engineering at various times in NetApp. This book is basically a mana... moregement book. It is autobiographical and Hitz outlines how NetApp was started as a Silicon valley start-up company, funded by VC money and how it gradually established a new market segment and grew to compete with the big names in Storage and eventually grew into a multi-billion dollar company employing more than 7000 employees. The style is unpretentious, engaging and is filled with a lot of lessons that he learned as they grew.Some of the lessons of interest are:In public speaking, focus on how you want the audience to feel after the talk, then what action you want them to take and then only worry about the content you will present to inspire those feelings and result in those actions.In all presentations, start with your final conclusions and then present all the data to support the conclusionsUseful truths are those which may not be scientifically true. If the real truth is too complex to be inspirational, simplify it a bit and this may create an useful truth. But if you go too far in simplifying it, then you may create a disillusioning falsehood.Good leaders must help people to step back and see the broad picture instead of getting lost in what he calls 'speckled egg thinking'.I enjoyed reading the book and learnt a few things about successful start-ups. Recommended. less

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