Trillion Dollar Coach
by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle · first published 2019
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…Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change" by Camille Fournier which I especially recommend for new managers. Lastly, and this time not tech-specific, but by far my best read of 2019: "Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell" written by Eric Schmidt & others.
on “Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?” ↗…a Team, by Patrick Lencioni For experienced managers of managers / Directors, I recommend: 1) What got you here won't get you there, Marshall Goldsmith 2) Team of Teams, Gen. Stanley McChrystal 3) Trillion Dollar Coach 4) How women rise, by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith 5) and get an executive coach ASAP If you have any specific questions / challenges you're facing, feel free to reach out; email in my profile.
on “Ask HN: Books / Resources on Leadership / Management” ↗Trillion dollar coach
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗Schmidt is a defense establishment insider, since, at least, his time at Sun. Having just finished Trillion Dollar Coach I can reaffirm that I am no fan of Schmidt as pop business book guy. But he's less wrong than Assange.
on “Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors” ↗The book Trillion Dollar Coach ( written by Eric Schmidt and other ex-Google leadership) has a first hand account of how they went from a philosophy of few managers to more. Surprisingly the debate was settled by impromptu interviews…
on “"My boss says we don't need any engineering managers"” ↗…Data-Driven Marketing - Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Monetizing Innovation - Super Thinking - The Great Mental Models - Nonviolent Communication - High Growth Handbook - Powerful - Trillion Dollar Coach
on “What is expected of a engineering manager?” ↗The book "Trillion Dollar Coach" is on my queue to read, so I plan on using Steve Glaveski's notes to decide how to read the chapters based on needs, interests and challenges I have today. This advice is one of my favorite ways to get…
on “Leadership Lessons from Bill Campbell, the Trillion Dollar Coach” ↗…consultant and she added me to her services every time she got a new client. The best book on this would be Million Dollar Consulting from Alan Weiss. Do your job well and then promote yourself to reading Trillion Dollar Coach ;))
on “Ask HN: How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor?” ↗