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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company

David Packard

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Summary

David Packard recounts how he and Bill Hewlett started their company and developed its approach to management. The account connects HP’s growth with the founders’ aims for their employees, customers and community. Packard describes objectives beyond revenue and profit, including openness to change and a commitment to the places where the company worked.

  • SourceHarperCollins: The HP Way original description · May 24, 1995 description: Hewlett and Packard’s company origins, management objectives, openness to change and community involvement
  • SourceHarperCollins authorized excerpt: The HP Way · Exact print ISBN 9780060845797; publisher-permission statement and Chapter One, Pueblo to Stanford

Why read it Our view

Read it to examine how a founder describes the purposes of a company and the choices that support them. Packard’s account can prompt a review of which goals your team uses to make decisions and how those goals reach beyond financial results.

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  • David PackardCompany-building account by the co-founder
    Packard wrote this account of building Hewlett-Packard with Bill Hewlett. Reuses the existing registry record and ISBN; proposed classification is book-by-founder.
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