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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 tumultuous period of the IPO and the dot-com bust, and finally to a mature enterprise company. NetApp is one of the fastest-growing computer companies ever, and for six years in a row it has been on Fortune magazine's list of Best Companies to Work For. Not bad for a high school dropout who began his business career selling his blood for money and typing the names of diseases onto index cards. With colorful examples and anecdotes, How to Castrate a Bull is a story for everyone interested in understanding business, the reasons why companies succeed and fail, and how powerful lessons often come from strange and unexpected places. Dave Hitz co-founded NetApp in 1992 with James Lau and Michael Malcolm. He served as a programmer, marketing evangelist, technical architect, and vice president of engineering. Presently, he is responsible for future strategy and direction for the company. Before his career in Silicon Valley, Dave worked as a cowboy, where he got valuable management experience by herding, branding, and castrating cattle.

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Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0470345233
ISBN-13
9780470345238
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70167202

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Book Title
How to Castrate a Bull : Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business
Author
Dave Hitz
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Leadership, Personal Success
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz

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Walsh, Pat
Lc Classification Number
Hd30.23
Reviews
NetApp Awarded #1 Best Company to Work For 2009 by Fortune A San Francisco Chronicle Nonfiction Best-Seller, January 30, 2009 "Readers will gain insight into management styles, different ways to make decisions, alternative approaches to managing people, and the value of dissent within a company. They also will learn why it is better to castrate a bull with a dull knife than a sharp knife. And they may get a few chuckles along the way."-- ByteandSwitch.com , January 27, 2009 "Hitz spends much of the book discussing what happened after he moved to move Silicon Valley in 1986 and began working at a series of start-ups, and the various business problems he faced and how he approached them. Hitz describes in detail the evolution of NetApp and, of course, does not omit the vendor's sales pitch. But at various points in the 200-page book Hitz takes a break from talking business to focus on some of the humorous passages referenced in Chapter Zero." -- NetworkWorld.com , January 21, 2009
Table of Content
0 Chapter Zero 1 Part One Beginnings 5 1 Before NetApp: On Computers, Colleges, Castration, and Risk 7 Interlude: What NetApp Does 21 2 Starting NetApp: On Toasters, Angels, Resellers, and Ferraris 23 Interlude: Redundant Array of Pyramid Hieroglyphics (RAPH) 41 3 CEO Lessons: On Pixie Dust, Decision Making, Candor, and Going Public 43 Interlude: Tom Mendoza's Lessons on Public Speaking 57 Part Two Turbulent Adolescence 59 4 Hypergrowth: On Goals, Doubling, Ancestors, and Pain 61 Interlude: How to Fail in Executive Staff Presentations 79 5 Values and Culture: On Dilbert, Drooling, Lies, and Game Theory 81 Interlude: Lawyers Aren't Evil--Fairness and Morality Are Not Their Job 97 6 Managing Engineers: On Development, Consensus, Doctor Death, and Magic 101 Interlude: Scientific-Truth and Useful-Truth 117 Part Three Grown-Up Company 121 7 Customers: On Love, Enterprise, Simplicity, and Partners 127 Interlude: Shark Island--A Parable of Risk and Mass Media 145 8 Strategic Change: On Reversing Course, Chocolate, Debates, and Core Beliefs 147 Interlude: Speckled-Egg Thinking 157 9 Vision: On Whining, Eras, Future History, and the Meaning of Life 161 Appendix A: Early NetApp Business Plan 177 Appendix B: NetApp Company Values 186 Glossary 188 Bibliography 194 Acknowledgments 195 The Author 197 Index 199
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-043471
Dewey Decimal
658.4/01
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
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