How to Castrate a Bull. Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business. Dave Hitz. Signed by the author

Dave Hitz. Signed by the author

ISBN 10: 0470345233 / ISBN 13: 9780470345238

Published by Wiley, J, 2009

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• Title: How to Castrate a Bull. Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business. Dave Hitz. Signed by the author
• Publisher: Wiley, J
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470345233
• ISBN 13: 9780470345238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Condition: Sehr gut - gebraucht
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

THE AUTHORS

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. Currently, he focuses on future strategy and setting the direction for the company.

Pat Walsh is the founding editor of MacAdam/Cage, a publisher of literary fiction and narrative non-fiction.