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The Rules were first articulated in 1999 by then HP CEO Carly Fiorina - during her tenure as then HP CEO - and they were later used in a Hewlett-Packard ad campaign. The name was a reference to
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in Palo Alto, in which Packard and Bill Hewlett first founded the company after graduating from nearby
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David Packard's garage in Palo Alto, in which Packard and Bill Hewlett first founded their company.
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Make a contribution every day. If it doesn’t contribute, it doesn’t leave the garage.
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Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
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are a set of eleven rules that attempt to encapsulate the work ethos that
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No Politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage.)
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Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever.
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Bill Hewlett
David Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Silicon Valley
David Packard's garage
Stanford University
HP culture


"Rules of the Garage, And Then Some"
Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
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ISBN
978-1-59184-152-4
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Hewlett-Packard
HP Inc.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bill Hewlett
David Packard

Directors
Marc Andreessen
Mohamed M. Atalla
Raj Gupta
Raymond J. Lane
Ann Livermore

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