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Bill and Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company

Author: Michael S Malon

Others have written about the rise of Hewlett-Packard, including Dave Packard himself in The HP Way. But acclaimed journalist Michael S. Malone is the first to get the full story, based on exclusive access to corporate and private archives, along with hundreds of interviews.

Malone draws on his new material to show how some of the most influential products of our time were invented and how a culture of innovation led HP to unparalleled success for decades.

He also shows what was really behind the HP Way—the groundbreaking management philosophy that put people ahead of products or profits. It was a hard-nosed business philosophy that created a ferociously competitive and adaptive company—arguably the world's greatest company.

Washington Post

Recounting the well-known HP stories and unearthing some new ones, his account of the two tech titans and the world they made has a fresh feel throughout.

San Jose Mercury News

The book is the best account so far of the lives of the two men who started Silicon Valley and created many of its lasting traditions and institutions.

Newsweek

It's worth reflecting on how fine Bill and Dave's achievement really was.

San Francisco Chronicle

A lesson plan for managers trying to make their own fame and fortune on an ever more competitive scale.

Wired

His tale of Hewlett-Packard's rise and fall recalls the time when, incredibly HP was cool. Malone chronicles how the two quickly outgrew what Packard called "that damn garage" and developed the HP Way, the cultural operating system standard for high tech companies.

Businessweek

Malone has produced a biography, management guidebook, and business history, all in one.

Caroline Geck - Library Journal

Drawing on extensive interviews with hundreds of employees and other new firsthand accounts, Malone, an accomplished technology journalist, offers an outstanding business history of Hewlett-Packard (HP) and its legendary founders, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. The two Stanford graduates transformed a small audio oscillator business in a Palo Alto, CA, garage into a top-ranked multiproduct and multi-industry Fortune 500 company. This book differs from other Hewlett-Packard histories by delving more deeply into how HP empowered employees and built their trust and loyalty. This business philosophy, nicknamed "the HP Way," focused on employees rather than products and translated directly into profits. HP was able to create an organizational culture of continuous innovation and an environment where future successes could be achieved by learning from previous misjudgments. Bill and Dave employed clever human resource management solutions and avoided today's quick cost-cutting schemes, such as layoffs and outsourcing. This well-written and enlightening book, which includes brief mentions of recent HP upheavals, should be essential reading for all human resource and top-level business professionals and can be equally enjoyed by public library patrons.

What People Are Saying

Jim Collins
Mike Malone does the legacy of Hewlett and Packard a great service with this book. I hope it inspires a whole new generation of entrepreneurs to rise to the standards set by these two remarkable leaders. (Jim Collins, author Good to Great, co-author Built to Last)

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Configuring SonicWALL Firewalls

Author: Chris Lathem

Configuring SonicWALL Firewal is the first book to deliver an in-depth look at the SonicWALL firewall product line. It covers all of the aspects of the SonicWALL product line from the SOHO devices to the Enterprise SonicWALL firewalls. Also covered are advanced troubleshooting techniques and the SonicWALL Security Manager. This book offers novice users a complete opportunity to learn the SonicWALL firewall appliance. Advanced users will find it a rich technical resource.