How to castrate a bull : unexpected lessons on risk, growth, and success in business / Dave Hitz with Pat Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hitz, Dave, 1963-

Contributor:

Walsh, Pat, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business planning.

Risk.

Success in business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn't set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even a billionaire. But he became all three. It turns out that business is a mosaic of interesting puzzles like managing risk, developing and reversing strategies, and looking into the future by deconstructing the past. As a founder of NetApp, a data storage firm that began as an idea scribbled on a placemat and now takes in 4 billion a year, Hitz has seen his company go through every major cycle in business-from the Jack-of-All-Trades mentality of a start-up, through the tumultuou

Contents:

How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business; Contents; chapter zero; PART ONE: Beginnings; Chapter 1: Before NetApp; Chapter 2: Starting NetApp; Chapter 3: CEO Lessons; PART TWO: Turbulent Adolescence; Chapter 4: Hypergrowth; Chapter 5: Values and Culture; Chapter 6: Managing Engineers; PART THREE: Grown-Up Company; Chapter 7: Customers; Chapter 8: Strategic Change; Chapter 9: Vision; Appendix A: Early NetApp Business Plan; Appendix B: NetApp Company Values; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; The Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194) and index.

ISBN:

9786612034190

9780470442678

0470442670

9781282034198

1282034197

9780470442661

0470442662

OCLC:

430942204