Trillion Dollar Coach
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle Chapter 1: The Caddie and the CEO The Trillion Dollar Coach There is another, equally critical, factor for success in companies: teams that act as communities, integrating interests and putting aside differences to be individually and collectively […]
Getting to Yes
Getting to yes. Negotiating agreement without giving in. Rodger Fisher—2011. Chapter 1: don’t bargain over positions. Chapter 2: the method. Separate the people from the problem. Chapter 3: focus on interests, not positions. Chapter 4: invent options for mutual gain. Chapter 5: insist on using objective criteria. Chapter 6: what if they are more powerful? […]
Forget A Mentor – Find a Sponsor
Find A Mentor – Sylvia Ann Hewlett Introduction I now understood that climbing the ladder in any competitive field required heavy-duty support from a senior person with heft and influence. So I finally got it–sponsorship, that is. I did my utmost to never again let it go. My career journey was complicated (more on that […]
Evil Plans
Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination. Hugh MacLeod—2011 Introduction: everybody needs an evil plan. The market for something to believe in is infinite. Create your own global micro-brand. Keep it simple. Join the overextended class. Have a world-class product. Make art every day. Fill in the narrative gaps. Remember who you […]
Escape from Cubicle Nation
Pamela Slim – – 2009. Section 1: opening up to the opportunities. Chapter 1: I have a fancy title, steady paycheck, and good benefits. Why am I so miserable? Chapter 2: if it is so bad, then why am I afraid to leave? Chapter 3: detox from corporate life. Chapter 4: what’s really involved in […]
Engine of Impact
Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker Foreword Introduction: Strategic Leadership in the Impact Era The Impact Era (2005 to the Present):The Sector Reckons with New Challenges The Need for Increased Philanthropy Part 1: Strategic Thinking: Build and Tune Your Engine of Impact […]
Do Over
Jon Acuff—2015 Chapter 1: The Career savings account. Chapter 2: do this first. Chapter 3: you don’t know who you know. Chapter 4: give your foes what they need most. Chapter 5: casual counts. Chapter 6: great careers take great advocates. Part two: skills, what you do. Chapter 9: you have more skills than you […]
Who Not How
Dan Sullivan And what are you trying to accomplish? Do you have Whos in your life that give you the perspectives, resources, and ability to go beyond what you could do alone? Or are you keeping your goals so small to make them easier to accomplish them on your own? Result, not effort, is the […]
Work Rules!
Work Rules! Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live And Lead Laszlo Bock Preface: A Guidance Counselor’s Nightmare Most CEOs are very good at many things, but they become CEOs for being superbly distinctive at one or two, which tend to be matched to a company’s needs at that time. Even […]
Zero to One
Peter Thiel—2014 Preface. Chapter 1: the challenge of the future. Startup Thinking Chapter 2: party like its 1999. A Quick History of the 90s PayPal Mania (Track 7) Chapter 3: all happy companies are different. Lies People Tell Competitive lies (track 10) Ruthless People Monopoly Capitalism. Chapter 4: the ideology of competition. War and peace. […]