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Much of my life in General Motors was devoted to the development, organization, and periodic reorganization of these governing groups in central management. This was required because of the paramount importance, in an organization like General Motors, of providing the right framework for decisions. There is a natural tendency to erode that framewor
... See moreAlfred P Sloan Jr. • My Years With General Motors
WARREN BUFFETT Founder and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
The art of management lies in the capacity to select from the many activities of seemingly comparable significance the one or two or three that provide leverage well beyond the others and concentrate on them.
Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who were being pushed by their venture investors to find an “adult” to serve as CEO of a young search-engine company, Google.
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, outlined when he described what happens to businesses in tumultuous times: “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Andy Grove will always be my model of CEO competence. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, wrote the best management book I’ve ever read (High Output Management), and tirelessly refined his craft.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
It’s your responsibility as a leader not to try to deal with a disaster on your own.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders
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