PERMISSION DENIED

Always a satisfying moment when you complete a task, and SHIP THE PRODUCT.  Also scary for any engineer -- will it keep running, will people like it, will it do the job, what is it missing?

The NEW PRODUCT is called "Permission Denied: Odyssey of an Intrapreneur".  It essentially is MY STORY of becoming first an INTRAPRENEUR long before that word was coined, and then being asked to teach how to expand it across a large company called Hewlett-Packard at a time that HP innovation was feared to be declining.

I assert that it worked for a long time -- HP growth continued unabated for another fifteen years, becoming the fastest growing and longest sustained growth rate company of the 2,000+ companies on the NYSE board from 1958-1998.    But CEOs change, and so do practices, and just like so many other large companies, contribution and innovation lost favor by comparison with consistent quarterly results and small, incremental progress steps.  Sigh...

PERMISSION DENIED is a memoir of ten years at HP developing the Logic Analyzer business, with two sets of rules that will work just as well today -- sever rules for erstwhile entrepreneurs, and seven more for their managers.  We'll publish these rules and the two brief chapters about them separately.

It will be available from Amazon, searchable by Google, within about eight weeks.  List price $17.95.

A better (and quicker) way is via LuluPress, available today at 15% discount (plus any coupons, which can often be another 20-30%), at the following:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/charles-h-house/permission-denied/paperback/product-20948639.html;jsessionid=B0C5C3DB9190216C9217EC70FB88DB45

If you buy it, read it.  And let me know your thoughts!