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Delegation transforms an entrepreneur into a manager. Successful entrepreneurs have made this transition by learning to “trust but verify”—having daily team meetings to set daily priorities and a short team meeting each day to teach a key point.
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Wise leaders use their personal ethics to effectively manage the tension between corporate values and corporate profits.
Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders
Peacetime CEO knows that proper protocol leads to winning. Wartime CEO violates protocol in order to win.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Max de Pree, retired CEO of the Herman Miller furniture company, said his vision for Herman Miller was “to be a gift to the human spirit”—by which he meant not only Herman Miller’s products, but its people, its atmosphere, and its larger commitment to productive and aesthetic work environments.4
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
WARREN BUFFETT Founder and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
ROBERT F. SMITH Founder and CEO, Vista Equity Partners; Philanthropist