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What does all this mean for a CEO, founder, or category creator of any kind? Your number one job is to change the way people think.
Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, • Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
Way of the Wolf: Straight line selling: Master the art of persuasion, influence, and success
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“People don’t buy what you do,” Sinek says, “they buy why you do it.”23 People buy Apple’s why.
Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
tracked—and then revised or adapted as circumstances dictate.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
During this early period I began hiring personnel with four characteristics I value most highly: talent, character, functional intelligence (beyond basic intelligence, the ability to think on your feet, quickly and spontaneously), and an eagerness to adopt my way of doing things, my philosophy. These included assistant coaches I was very familiar w
... See moreBill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
The real scorecard in life is how well you build meaningful relationships and how well you live to your core values. This means that values come before goals, before strategy, before tactics, before products, before market choices, before financing, before business plans, before every decision. I gleaned from Bill the idea that a company should sta
... See moreJim Collins • BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company
I will give you the tools to become irreplaceable in the third millennium. That is, to leverage the character you have created by pursuing your purpose, discovering your life’s work, and passing down your lessons as the trifecta of The Good Life.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
what strategy is really all about: changing current methods of operating in order to render more value by existing partners on existing services to existing market segments.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
High-performance organizations home in on work that’s important, and are equally clear on what doesn’t matter.