The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
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The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
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Re: The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
#2Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
Re: The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
#3Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I rate 'High output management' by Andrew Grove (founder & CEO of Intel). He has clearly lived a lot of the experiences he wrote about and the advice was pretty timeless.
Re: The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
#4Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I rate 'High output management' by Andrew Grove (founder & CEO of Intel). He has clearly lived a lot of the experiences he wrote about and the advice was pretty timeless.
"An elegant puzzle" is also a book with a lot of meat on it.
Re: The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
#5Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I gave “Leaders eat last” a try, but found it unreadable.
It starts with SEALs in Afghanistan, because of course it does, and then the author loosely strings together a bunch of unconvincing anecdotes to support his core idea.
The worst part is his constant reference to various hormones and fight or flight responses in a superficial way that would make even TEDx feel ashamed.
Edit: there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the military can produce outstanding leaders. Humans have been battling for too long as not to have developed specialised training systems.
My gripe is with the book alone.
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#7Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
Another book from the military space is "Extreme Leadership" (which also puts emphasis on "leading up").
But it's definitely also pop.
Re: The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
#8Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I rate 'High output management' by Andrew Grove (founder & CEO of Intel). He has clearly lived a lot of the experiences he wrote about and the advice was pretty timeless.
Review by Ben Horowitz:
Re: The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
#9Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I can recommend “Radical Candor”
Re: The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
#10Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I like books which are sort of lessons within a biography format. Points pulled from real experience. For me, this adds context and makes a book readable. If you don't learn anything, then at least you might get to read a good story.
The hard thing about hard things, by Ben Horowitz
The Score Takes Care of Itself, Bill Walsh (49ers Coach)
Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull (Ran Pixar)
To Pixar and Beyond, Lawrence Levy (CFO of Pixar with interesting different POV than Ed Catmull)
Otherwise for any dumpster fire of a subject I want a book on, I'll try to trace the "lineage" to see where the starting points were. The trash today won't be a thing 50 years from now. So, maybe look at books from 50 years ago or more.