A few reads to step up your learning
(Vinnie did a write-up on Fast Company)
- Management
- Culture
- Hiring
- Selling
- Marketing
- Coaching
- Productivity
- Negotiating
- For Fun
- 🎧 Podcasts & Masterclasses
Management
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Here are a few things from my notes: Here are a few things from my notes: Bryan Rahija It's important to get 3 key processes in place: -1 on 1s: possibly the single best way to make your organization a Good Place to Work, encourage employees to deliver important bad news, and clear obstacles to their work, these should occur very regularly-Promotions: clarity on this front discourages political maneuvering -Feedback: it's just really important for raising the bar 2 really good questions to ask: -What would I do if my company went bankrupt?
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The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building - Kindle edition by Mochary, Matt, MacCaw, Alex, Talavera, Misha. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building.
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High Output Management
One of the classic books on management Strongly recommend this to anyone in management (either of other people or as a professional in charge of a function). Andy a Grove was truly one of the great business leaders.
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Culture
Work Rules!
Interesting insights on how Google works, Googlers make decisions and learn from their wins and losses. A couple things that stood out for me were 1) the willingness to experiment - there are always a number of small experiments running. Without the fear of, we may be stuck with this if it does not work.
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Measure What Matters
The book about OKR (objectives - key results) goals management system invented by Peter Drucker and popularized by long time Intel CEO Andy Groove.
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Hiring
Topgrading
Topgrading book. Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Book by Smart, Bradford D.
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Selling
Pitch Anything
SUPER WELL WRITTEN! Amazing stories and lots of suspense. What do you expect when a professional story teller decides to write a book. It is really interesting to understand how most of my sales pitch were actually working. My key takeaway was about raising your value:-Eliminate your desires.
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Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale
It's hard to distinguish if he is a snake oil salesman. The audio version is fun because he can talk so fast when he gets on a roll. I'm just gunna jot down my notes: Questions lead people to a decision. A lot of people don't know what they want because they don't know what's available.
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Marketing
Influence
I read this book for pleasure. Psychology and consumer behavior is incredibility fascinating to me. I've done really well in sales and still saw thisI read this book for pleasure. Psychology and consumer behavior is incredibility fascinating to me. I've done really well in sales and still saw this book as an asset!
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Coaching
Reboot
This definitely ain't a book for me (but that's a conclusion AFTER I've read it).It's not that I'm not a CEO, the reason is different. It's a book about leading which looks (sounds, in my case) like it was written by Virginia Woolf - very personal, all about feelings, impressions, moods, etc.
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Trillion Dollar Coach
"Bill looked for four characteristics in people. The person has to be smart, not necessarily academically but more from the standpoint of being able to get up to speed quickly in different areas and then make connections. Bill called this the ability to make "far analogies."
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Productivity
Your Brain at Work
VERY useful-- Though the author seems reductionist in some places, this book delivers. Packed full of useful information about how your brain works and how to use your brain wisely, it's a must-read for anyone who wants to perform better at work, school, or in life in general.
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Negotiating
Never Split the Difference
This book has changed my life! Or my reality's simply just been bent by some tricks of Chris Voss. Because this FBI guy is an outstanding negotiator. He has a special passion for negotiating, as we can find while reading this book, some times he was so glad when hearing that someone had been captured as a hostage (!)
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Getting to Yes
Getting to Yes book. Read reviews from world's largest community for readers.
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For Fun
I Can't Make This Up
I listened to the audio version of this book and I must tell you it is the BEST way to experience Mr. Hart's book. He does speak quickly, however, I dI listened to the audio version of this book and I must tell you it is the BEST way to experience Mr. Hart's book.
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🎧 Podcasts & Masterclasses
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Evolving for the Next Billion by GGV Capital
Listen to Evolving for the Next Billion by GGV Capital on Spotify. From Silicon Valley to Beijing, we interview movers and shakers of China's tech industry, as well as tech leaders who have a U.S.-China cross-border perspective. Brought to you by GGV Capital, a leading cross-border VC firm that has been investing in the U.S.
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General
- The Great CEO within
- Mochary Method Curriculum
- Connect (Stanford’s GSB Touchy Feely)
Marketing
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Silicon Valley cult fav)
Management
- High Output Managment (Andy Grove of Intel)
Sales Books >>> To clean up
- To Sell is Human
- Never Split the Difference
- Lifes a pitch
- Leaders Eat Last
- The Challenger Sale - Matt Dixon
- How To Win Friends And Influence People
- Narrative and Numbers
- The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg) - good for consumer CxOs
- The Catalyst, How to Change someone's Mind (Jonah Berger) - more for personal negotiation
- Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior (Jonah Berger) - some overlap with 2.
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-best-b2b-sales-books-manuel-hartmann/
Culture / People / Talent
- Work Rules! (Google's story)
- Scaling People (Stripe Press)
- Drive by Daniel Pink
Negotiating
- Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher
- Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference (tedx video)
Personal Finance
- The Barefoot Investor
Knowing how your brain functions
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
- Your Brain at Work by David Rock
Interesting
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
History
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared M. Diamond
Current Events
- The Economist
Other
- What Should I Do with My Life by Po Bronson