"The truth is so precious and so hard to coax into view--surrounded by its bodyguard of politics and half-truths--that there is simply no time for fuzzy thinking."
With so much garbage and junk out there being proferred as information for business executives, the statement made above by a biographer making observations while interviewing Grove were significant and vital to how we approach that which is offered to us as data and insight.
One of the major reasons it's so hard to find the truth, is because there are so many people who are self-important, peddling information as the vital key to success for us. They're trying to sell us something.
Today more than ever, we are bombarded by those who have no compunction about asserting their views and ideas, no matter if they're true or not.
As the writer above mentions, everything has become so politicized, that the haze and fog that accompanies all the information thrown out there has to be combated by diligent research, confirmation and common sense.
Run when you hear someone telling you about the next big thing. The truth is that the next big thing is almost always a series of many small things that eventually lead to big changes when considered together.
Probably the thing that best protected Grove was his being self taught. He didn't just accept the ideas of people when he ran Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), just because they were offered to him.
Another thing to be very cautious about is what is thrown before you as data. There has never been a time in history where things like polls, research and surveys are used to confirm what someone wants you to think, rather than what's really happening.
It's there that we must be expecially cautious. If we want to play the political game of lies and half-truths offered up by most politicians, that's one thing, but to play that game with our businesses is a disaster. We can't afford to believe the lies and hype thrown around out there if we want to survive as business leaders.
The major point to keep in mind is to understand there are an almost endless array of people out there with private agendas. We must learn to look past that and the fuzziness that accompanies it, and find the real truth of where things are at. That's one of the major legacies Andy Grove has left us.
The truth is out there, but it has to be wooed and courted if we want to find it. To do that, we must be sober and vigilant in how we view everything, and paranoid as to all the information we're being bombarded with.
Other Andy Grove Resources:
Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance
The Digital Age . . . driven by the passion of Intel's Andrew Grove
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Andy Grove enters new post-Intel role as activist capitalist
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