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Which partly explains why Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has been widely quoted as saying that he’s more concerned with the competitive risk of massively networked, interactive experiences like Epic Games’s Fortnite than Hulu or HBO Max or any other traditional broadcaster.

Scott Broock • Beyond Broadcast and Social Media: Game Engines are the New Reality Engines

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Robert Iger • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Alter the Perspective

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

Michael Backes

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ANDREESSEN VS. ZUCKERBERG: HOW BIG SHOULD THE TITLES BE? Should your company make Vice President the top title or should you have Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief People Officers, and Chief Snack Officers? There are two schools of thought regarding this, one represented by Marc Andreessen and the other by Mark Zuckerberg. And

Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

In effect, besides the CEO, the company operates with no conventional general managers: people who control an entire process from product development through sales and are judged according to a P&L statement.

Joel M. Podolny • How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

the CEO and “chief servant

Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

In The Wire everyone was both protagonist and antagonist to someone else; every battle was balanced and you didn’t know who would win

John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

Jason Child, a colleague of mine from my Arthur Andersen days (he’s now the CFO of Groupon), introduced me to Jason Kilar (who later became the founder and CEO of Hulu). They invited me to interview at Amazon.com