Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle

3 Bullet Book: 2020, book #38: “It’s important to love colleagues in the workplace and go out of your way to start conversations with all members of the company.” — Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle

Finished on June 4, 2020

This book was one of the recommended listens after some of my recent audiobooks. More than that, though, Ian Dunlap — one of the investors I most admire — shared that this is a must read book. So I went out and bought it right away. This was a great book and I learned a lot. More than anything else was the reiteration of mentors and the value of them.

The 3 Bullets

1. Both a savvy manager and a caring coach are essential but many people only have one… or neither. If your leader cannot both empathize with you and also compel you to work harder and do more, your team is going to struggle. It’s amazing sometimes how little time managers spend with their subordinates. Yet, they expect high performance, how?