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Felix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
Google turned to its mission statement: Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
Growth will break your company. As more people join, your organizational design and communication style need to keep up or you risk alienating the team and cratering your culture.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
an informed optimist
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“What I think you’ve taught me most is how important it is to state the obvious.” Yes, it felt like a backhanded compliment. But what I think she meant is that I strive to make implicit structures and beliefs explicit. Making those elements clear to everyone allows a group of people to become a true team and a company to scale.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
“A manager’s job is to break ties and make their people better,” Bill said. “We’re going to do it this way. Cut the shit. Done.”
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle • Trillion Dollar Coach
Nat Friedman • Nat Friedman
Teams working for the best managers also performed better and had lower turnover.