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Books on HP and EDS

 

This directory includes links to Amazon reviews and author websites – plus links to read portions of each book online. 

For a directory of links to sites and articles – the company, the founders, products and reminiscences, reference sites, acquisitions and spinoffs – click here: HP History Links.

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Books on HP

Books on EDS

 

 

   

The HP Way

   

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard, David Kirby, and Karen Lewis
Collins Hardcover (May 24, 1995) ISBN-10: 0887307477
Collins Paperback (January 3, 2006) ISBN-10: 0060845791 (New forward by Jim Collins.)

Amazon reviews

Look inside the book at Amazon

Forward and search the text at Google Book Search


Bill & Dave – by Michael S. Malone
Portfolio Hardcover (April 5, 2007) ISBN-10: 1591841526
Portfolio Paperback (March 25, 2008) ISBN-10: 1591841879

Amazon reviews and more reviews

First 21 pages, other pages, and search the text at Google Book Search


The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation – by Charles House and Raymond Price
Stanford University Press (October 9, 2009) ISBN-10: 0804752869

Amazon reviews

Look inside the book at Amazon

Introduction at Scribd

First 73 pages and search the text at Google Book Search

Authors: House's blog    House's LinkedIn profile    Price's bio page


Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras

[HP is extensively discussed.]
Collins Hardcover (October 26, 1994) ISBN-10: 0060566108 1st edition
Collins Paperback (August 20, 2002) ISBN-10: 0060516402 3rd edition

Amazon reviews

Look inside the book at Amazon

Search the text at Google Book Search

Author: website


Bill & Dave's Memos – by Albert Yuen

[Writings on a variety of topics from managing people, to technology, to doing business globally.]
Self-published via Amazon's BookSurge Publishing (February 8, 2007) ISBN-10: 1424327814

Amazon reviews

Look inside the book at Amazon

Author's LinkedIn profile


Build An Industry Hot Rod: The Nuts and Bolts of Leaving Competitors in the Dust – by Marvin L. Patterson

[Many references to HP, based on the author's '73 - '93 HP R&D management experience.] 
Self-published (October 1, 2008) ISBN-10: 0981728405
Look inside the book at Amazon

Author: website


  

 

HP Events and Personalities  (most recent first)

 

The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life – by Meg Whitman and Joan O'C Hamilton
Crown Hardcover (January 26, 2010) ISBN-10: 0307591212

Three Rivers Paperback (September 7, 2010) ISBN-10: 159184181X

Amazon reviews

Limited preview at Google Book Search


The Big Lie: Spying, Scandal, and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett Packard – by Anthony Bianco

PublicAffairs (May 25, 2010) ISBN-10: 1586488031

Amazon reviews

Look inside the book at Amazon

Author: website  


Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins – by Tom Perkins

[Perkins resigned from HP four times twice as an employee and twice as a director.]
Gotham Hardcover (November 1, 2007) ISBN-10: 1592403131

Gotham Paperback (October 7, 2008) ISBN-10: 1592404030  B00263J6KY

Amazon reviews

Limited preview at Google Book Search


Tough Choices: A Memoir – by Carly Fiorina
Portfolio Hardcover (October 9, 2006) ISBN-10: 159184133X

Portfolio Paperback (September 25, 2007) ISBN-10: 159184181X

Amazon reviews

Limited preview at Google Book Search

Author website


Company: A Novel – by Max Barry

[Caustic novel dedicated to HP by former employee: "The truly flexible company doesn't employ people at all."]

Doubleday Hardcover (January 17, 2006) ISBN-10: 0385514395
Vintage Paperback (March 13, 2007) ISBN-10: 1400079373
Amazon reviews and look inside the book
View sample and search the text at Google Book Search


Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard – by Peter Burrows
Wiley Hardcover (February 15, 2003) ISBN-10: 0471267651

Amazon reviews

First 40 pages and search the text at Google Book Search

Author: info page


Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard – by George Anders
Portfolio Hardcover (January 23, 2003) ISBN-10: 1591840031
Portfolio Paperback (January 27, 2004) ISBN-10: 1591840325

Amazon reviews

Search the text at Google Book Search 

Author's LinkedIn profile


How It All Began: Hewlett-Packard's Loveland Facility – by Kenneth Jessen

[Jessen is author of many books and articles on Colorado history.]
Self-published Paperback (July 2001) ISBN-10: 1928656021

Self-published Hardcover (1999) ASIN: B002WEUGY2 


The Gamesman: The New Corporate Leaders – by Michael Maccoby

[Dick Hackborn is the thinly-disguised example.]
Bantam Paperback (January 1978) ISBN-10: 0553114506 or ISBN-10: 0553230999
Simon & Schuster Hardcover (January 31, 1977) ISBN-10: 0671223534

Amazon reviews

 


  

 

EDS  (most recent first)

 

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done – by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck

[Chapter: "Executing at EDS" about Dick Brown]

Crown (2002) ASIN: 0712625984   ASIN: 0609610570


Action Urgency Excellence: Seizing Leadership in the Digital Economy – by Ram Charan; foreword by Dick Brown

Electronic Data Systems (2000) ASIN: B000JEEATO   ASIN: B001ZUIQYQ


My Life & The Principles for Success – by Ross Perot

Summit (September 25, 1996) ISBN-10: 1565302370  


Liberation Management – by Tom Peters
[Chapter: "World's Largest Project Organization in the World's Zaniest Industry"]

Knopf (1992) ASIN: 0394559991   ASIN: 0449456781


Perot: An Unauthorized Biography – by Todd Mason

McGraw-Hill (April 1990) ISBN-10: 1556232365   ASIN: B002AWYKQQ


How to be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth – by Martin S. Fridson

[Chapter on Perot]

Little Brown (March 1989) ISBN-10: 047133202X   ISBN-10: 0471416177


Irreconcilable Differences: Ross Perot Versus General Motors – by Doron P. Levin

Little Brown (March 1989) ISBN-10: 0316522112   ISBN-10: 0452263867


On Wings of Eagles – by Ken Follett

[EDS rescues two employees held hostage in Iran.]

Morrow (September 1983) ISBN-10: 0688023711   ISBN-10: 0451213092   ISBN-10: 0451163532

 

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