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Bill and Dave both believed that they had received much in life, and that giving back to the community was important. What’s more, contrary to the reigning business philosophy of the time, they believed that corporations had a duty to contribute to the
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During the month of September, I’d like to talk about the philosophy of our founders, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. They had several values, which were not really codified until the business was older, but existed right from the beginning. High up on
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“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind..
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Over the weekend, I read the Time magazine cover story on Nelson Mandela, which outlined Mandela’s eight rules of leadership. I was struck by how similar one of them was to something Dave Packard had written in his book (The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and
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On the same April 1944 visit to HP, Bill reported to the folks at HP on how the equipment they were manufacturing was holding up and contributing to the war effort. Hewlett had just returned from a trip to the South Pacific, where he had been ordered
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I have been asked many times whether Bill or Dave served in WWII. Indeed, in 1942 Bill was called to active duty in the Army (he was in the Army Reserve) and was assigned to the Technical Division of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer in Washington
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Here's more on the "E" award, as explained in “Watt’s Current,” HP’s newsletter of the time . . . In 1906 the Navy instituted in the Fleet an award for excellence which has been known ever since as the Navy “E”. First awarded for excellence
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In the spirit of the 4 th of July, I thought I would write about E-awards. Not the eAwards that HP employees can earn today as bonuses, but the Army-Navy E-Award of World War II. This was an award for excellence in production, and Hewlett-Packard Company
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Bill Hewlett did not give as many speeches as did Dave Packard. His long-time secretary told me he did not enjoy speaking, but he did write his own speeches, and worked very hard on them. So there are not as many quotes from him as there are from Dave
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It’s Photo Day, this being Friday, and this month I will feature Bill Hewlett. This may be the earliest photo we have of Bill in the HP Archives. He is pictured rappelling on Mt. Owen, California, in 1930, the year he entered Stanford University. Bill
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Hello, I’m sorry I’ve been gone for a while; HP moved to a new blogging platform, but I am back up now. Since I wrote about David and Lucile Packard last month, this month I will concentrate on Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company. To start
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Monday is “Quote Day” in the HP Archives, and since we’ve been talking about Dave and Lucile and their contributions, I thought I would start with a quote from Dave Packard about contribution. In 1960 he addressed an HP management training session and
I’ve referred several times to “Valued Partners,” the current exhibit at the Los Altos History Museum. The exhibit is a real eye-opener about the contributions David and Lucile Packard made to the community separately and together. The next program in
Well, it happened again. Today someone dropped by the archives, and I got distracted by something totally interesting. Turns out my visitor is a “ham”—a ham radio operator. He asked me if I knew Dave Packard’s ham radio call number. Dave was a ham, as
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As mentioned in my last blog, last week I attended a program called “The HP Phenomenon,” sponsored by the Los Altos History Museum. It featured a panel of gentlemen who had worked for HP as contemporaries and friends of Dave Packard, and basically, they
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