Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can't be Taught– and How You Can Learn it Anyway

Acknowledgments

This book is the product of a lifetime's work and learning, and many people have contributed to my perspective on leadership along the way. I would like to thank, first, all my colleagues at Fairchild Semiconductor and at Intel Corporation with whom I shared the challenges of leadership over more than three decades; in particular, the late Bob Seeds, my first boss in the Digital Electronics department at Fairchild's R&D laboratories; Les Vadasz, my first boss at Intel; and Intel's former CEO and current chairman, Craig Barrett.

I also want to acknowledge the extraordinary contribution and achievement of Intel's founders, Gordon Moore and the late Robert Noyce. Not only did they support me in my endeavors from the early days of the ...