Comparison and Contrast between Two Chapters

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Comparison and Contrast between Two Chapters
This paper will compare and contrast two CEOs that led technology companies through difficult times. Michael Dell CEO and founder of Dell Computers and Andy Grove former CEO and cofounder of Intel each provided quality leadership as their companies faced challenges in the fast-paced computer technology industry. This paper will introduce each man and describe their contributions to their company and the field of management, resistance they encountered, similarities in their professional lives and how they differed. The information about these two success CEOs comes from Jeffrey Krames (2003) book What the Best CEOs Know: 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business.
Introduction of Business Professional and their contributions
Michael Dell founded Dell Computer in 1984 and grew it into one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world. Dell Computer’s success resulted in Michael Dell being the highlighted as “youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company” (Krames, 2003, p.58). Michael Dell’s guiding principle is to focus on the customer. This principle routinely guided his leadership decisions including computer design and development decisions, the organizational structure of the company and in how Dell Computer used the Internet.
Andy Grove cofounded Intel in the late 1960s and helped it become the leading memory chipmaker and then the leading microprocessor chip manufacturer in the world. Andy Grove’s leadership through two significant challenges resulted in drastic change to the company that resulted in their continued success. Through these challenges, Andy Grove realized that companies face Strategic Inflection Points (SIP) or times when the company will ...

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...e also impacted by Moore’s Law, a prediction by Grove’s cofounder Gordon Moore, that “the power of the computer chip would double every 18 months” (Krames, 2003, p.136). This true concept resulted in rapid change in the computer industry causing Dell Computer and Intel to consistently change as technology changed.
Each man contributed significantly to their company’s success based on their own philosophies. They provided excellent insight to leadership paradigms and organizational challenges within the fast moving computer industry. Both men made positive impacts on the computer industry. It is fair to say, that the industry may not look the same today if it wasn’t for these to exceptional leaders.

Works Cited

Krames, Jeffrey A.. What the Best CEOs Know : 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business.
: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing,

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