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by Kim Scott
Recommended by 10 notable people, including Ankur Warikoo and David Cancel
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Best Startup Books, Best Leadership Books, and Most Recommended Books.
From the time we learn to speak, we?re told that if you don?t have anything nice to say, don?t say anything at all. While this advice may work for everyday life, it is, as Kim Scott has seen, a disaster when adopted by managers.Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google and then decamped to Apple, where she developed a class ...
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Best Startup Books, Best Leadership Books, and Most Recommended Books.
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Consider The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Recommended by 60 sources.
“A blunt, conversational tour through the worst parts of building a company. Horowitz shares personal stories from his own startup failures and recoveries, offering practical wisdom on layoffs, pivots, CEO loneliness, and managing when times are bad. The value is in the honest, experience-based insight you won't get from business school. The limitation is its narrow focus on venture-backed tech startups—if you're not in that world, some advice may feel irrelevant. Reads like a wise mentor telling you what nobody else will.”
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