"The Silicon Valley Road" tells about true experiences of Tom Maher starting as a supervisor and then proceeding up through the management ranks in several Silicon Valley Companies. Some of the experiences are truly educational and some are truly ugly. As the management experience is learned by Maher, he begins to list some of the management problems and some of the management requirements needed to run a successful company. He soon learns how to endow all the people in the factory to participate in solving the daily problems, which prompts operating costs to go down and morale to go up. Maher also learned how management must be involved in the daily factory issues by knowing what problems are present and how they are being solved. Tom Maher also found out that a "real time - on line" computer reporting system is mandatory to control the product cost, hourly schedule, inventories and raw material status.
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I found this book to be a great example of how the old loyal employer/employee relationships do not exist any longer. I liked that the author started out with nothing and created a part of history of Silicon Valley. Reading this brought back memories of how things were in Silicon Valley before the dotcom bust. There's a lot of great lessons and advice from a person who started from the ground up.
Delightfully humorous!!
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I titled this biased because I am Tom Maher's son. I helped him with some of the computer work and read it along the way. My father has a unique perspective on the Silicon Valley having started in the early sixties and helped develop Seagate to legendary status with his manufacturing skills and management techniques. People who have worked for my father speak highly of his skill as a manager and as someone who involves his staff in the creation of product and productivity.
My father, also having been born and raised in Iowa, has a unique and entertaining way of delivering his message which I am sure you will enjoy if you read the book. Get a little history of the valley from one who helped shape it. [...].
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