The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
by Eric Schmidt
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American entrepreneur and YouTuber
Recommended by 11 notable people, including Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg
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See customer reviews on Amazon →A brisk, anecdote-driven collection of management lessons presented as brief chapters and stories. Its most useful parts are short, practical reminders about mentoring, building trust, and coaching teams—phrases you can recall before meetings. The main limitation is a heavy reliance on anecdotes and secondhand recollection rather than step-by-step recipes or rigorous analysis; readers wanting granular playbooks or data will find it thin. Best approached as a promptbook to revisit instead of a how-to manual to follow cover-to-cover.
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The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such a...
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Recommended by 13 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Management, and Leadership.
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Consider Good to Great by Jim Collins. Recommended by 32 sources.
“The book walks you through a multi-year research project, contrasting spectacular performers with mere survivors. The core insight—that sustained greatness hinges on disciplined people, thought, and action—feels sturdy and actionable. But the book’s arguments rely on retrospective selection of companies, and some of its darlings later faltered. You’ll find a methodical, almost monastic tone that rewards patience but may irritate if you want contemporary, tech-savvy lessons.”
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