How to castrate a bull
Subtitle: unexpected lessons on risk, growth, and success in business
By: Dave Hitz with Pat Walsh
Contributors: Walsh, Pat, 1968-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780470345238
Subjects: Business planning; Risk; Success in business
Description: Describes three stages for developing a successful business built around the themes of risk, growth, and success.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before NetApp: on computers, colleges, castration, and risk; title: Starting NetApp: on toasters, angels, resellers, and Ferraris; title: CEO lessons: on pixie dust, decision making, candor, and going public; title: Hypergrowth: on goals, doubling, ancestors, and pain; title: Values and culture: on Dilbert, drooling, lies, and game theory; title: Managing engineers: on development, consensus, doctor death, and magic; title: Customers: on love, enterprise, simplicity, and partners; title: Strategic change: on reversing course, chocolate, debates, and core beliefs; title: Vision: on whining, eras, future history, and the meaning of life.