Only the Paranoid Survive

707: Andy Stanley & Sam Kaufman - Problems to Solve, Tensions to Manage, The 3 Questions Behind Every Great Decision, and The 7 Essentials of Enduring Leadership (What Great Leaders Do)

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk, 20 September 2026. The book comes up at 26 min 19 sec in.

Andy Stanley credits Andrew Grove's "Only the Paranoid Survive" as the source of his second decision-making question: what would the next leader do? He summarizes the book's core story—Intel's struggle against Japanese chip manufacturers in the 1980s and Grove's pivotal question to CEO Gordon Moore about what a new team would do—which led to Intel's exit from the memory-chip business and became the model for Stanley's own most difficult personnel decisions.

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