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

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.