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Бути лідером. Мудрість від тих, хто змінив правила гри
Як проявляється лідерство? Що варто робити, аби бути на висоті? Ці питання автори бізнес-літератури досліджують уже не одне десятиліття. Однак чому б їм просто не спитати в тих, хто справді досягнув значних висот? Саме так і вчинив Девід Рубенштейн.
У цій книжці автор опитав понад 30 відомих особистостей, які належать до 6 типів лідерів, і визначив їхні секрети успіху. З іншими інтерв’юерами вони, можливо, і не захотіли б ділитися, однак умінню Рубенштейна розговорити своїх співрозмовників можна тільки позаздрити. З ним відверто розмовляють Джеф Безос, Білл Гейтс, Опра Вінфрі, Білл Клінтон, Рут Гінзбург, Річард Бренсон, Ентоні Фаучі та інші.
У цій книжці автор опитав понад 30 відомих особистостей, які належать до 6 типів лідерів, і визначив їхні секрети успіху. З іншими інтерв’юерами вони, можливо, і не захотіли б ділитися, однак умінню Рубенштейна розговорити своїх співрозмовників можна тільки позаздрити. З ним відверто розмовляють Джеф Безос, Білл Гейтс, Опра Вінфрі, Білл Клінтон, Рут Гінзбург, Річард Бренсон, Ентоні Фаучі та інші.
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September 23, 2020
This book is largely a recap of 'peer-to-peer' conversations conducted by Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein. For regular watchers of David's Bloomberg show, there is not much new here: the text is almost entirely verbatim from these interviews. Some of the excerpted passages (e.g., Dr. Fauci discussing Covid-19 death projections; Adam Silver on NBA salaries) are not particularly relevant to the book's purported topic.
Nonetheless, the distillation of wisdom from such imminently successful people makes this book invaluable. James A. Baker lives by the 'Fives P's' (Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance). Jeff Bezos gets 8 hours of sleep, avoids early or late meetings, and considers a day successful if he has made 2 or 3 good decisions. Oprah Winfrey seeks to establish a personal connection with everyone she meets. The book also features timeless gems of interviews, including one with the late, great Ruth Bader Ginsberg and a joint conversation with Presidents Clinton and Bush 43.
This book can be recommended to anyone seeking to better understand the lives and thinking of highly successful people. Much like Tim Ferriss's "Tools of Titans" and "Tribe of Mentors," "How to Lead" can make for compelling browsing and does not need to be read successively from cover to cover. If you don't have time to watch the interviews on YouTube or would like a compendium of insights from high achievers, this book is worth putting on your list.
Nonetheless, the distillation of wisdom from such imminently successful people makes this book invaluable. James A. Baker lives by the 'Fives P's' (Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance). Jeff Bezos gets 8 hours of sleep, avoids early or late meetings, and considers a day successful if he has made 2 or 3 good decisions. Oprah Winfrey seeks to establish a personal connection with everyone she meets. The book also features timeless gems of interviews, including one with the late, great Ruth Bader Ginsberg and a joint conversation with Presidents Clinton and Bush 43.
This book can be recommended to anyone seeking to better understand the lives and thinking of highly successful people. Much like Tim Ferriss's "Tools of Titans" and "Tribe of Mentors," "How to Lead" can make for compelling browsing and does not need to be read successively from cover to cover. If you don't have time to watch the interviews on YouTube or would like a compendium of insights from high achievers, this book is worth putting on your list.
October 7, 2021
Комусь хочеться бути, а хтось бере і стає (чи є), бо я так і не узагальнила для себе, що ж це за істоти такі вперед-ведучі, але як їх їсти (або хоча б понадкушувати) я спробувала:
- із 30 лідерів і їхніх думок, жінок виявилось 10, і їхні персонажі традиційно сильніші за чоловічі. І не лише через те, що потрібно було виживати у світі, де чоловіки керують за принципом - I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it, але й передусім тому, що соціальна роль жінки обумовлена завчасно і ті, хто ламає ці традиції наражаються на цілодобову критику; Крістін Лаґард (колишня очільниця МВФ і теперішня ЄЦБ) згадує як заходила до суто чоловічого колективу і читала в очах чоловіків «Оу, ти можеш сказали щось розумне? Та ну»
- другий кластер найсильніших історій - чоловіки-військові - тут все максимально чітко, схема проста «упав-піднявся-віджався-дав команду віджатись ще 50 особам-дослужися до генерала-пішов на пенсію героєм»
- окремо виділю Кондолізу Райс і її непохитну позицію щодо упередженості інших. Вона так і каже: це проблеми людей, якщо їм щось не подобається, не ваші. Не можна дозволяти упередженим особам робити нас недієздатними
- і наостанок, кожен виділяє те, що англійською звучить як swallow your pride, тобто наступати на власну гордість може бути не так вже й боляче, а набагато дієвіше, особливо, коли у нинішньому столітті будь-яка робота
- це командний продукт, а не супер-его лідера.
*тут згадується Анна Вінтур, яка завжди як мантру повторює “I don’t believe in micromanagement�.
Після слів незмінної редакторка американського Vogue, не проявлятиму свої лідерські навички і не всуватиму свої скупі копійки, хай там лідерші розрулюють:)
- із 30 лідерів і їхніх думок, жінок виявилось 10, і їхні персонажі традиційно сильніші за чоловічі. І не лише через те, що потрібно було виживати у світі, де чоловіки керують за принципом - I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it, але й передусім тому, що соціальна роль жінки обумовлена завчасно і ті, хто ламає ці традиції наражаються на цілодобову критику; Крістін Лаґард (колишня очільниця МВФ і теперішня ЄЦБ) згадує як заходила до суто чоловічого колективу і читала в очах чоловіків «Оу, ти можеш сказали щось розумне? Та ну»
- другий кластер найсильніших історій - чоловіки-військові - тут все максимально чітко, схема проста «упав-піднявся-віджався-дав команду віджатись ще 50 особам-дослужися до генерала-пішов на пенсію героєм»
- окремо виділю Кондолізу Райс і її непохитну позицію щодо упередженості інших. Вона так і каже: це проблеми людей, якщо їм щось не подобається, не ваші. Не можна дозволяти упередженим особам робити нас недієздатними
- і наостанок, кожен виділяє те, що англійською звучить як swallow your pride, тобто наступати на власну гордість може бути не так вже й боляче, а набагато дієвіше, особливо, коли у нинішньому столітті будь-яка робота
- це командний продукт, а не супер-его лідера.
*тут згадується Анна Вінтур, яка завжди як мантру повторює “I don’t believe in micromanagement�.
Після слів незмінної редакторка американського Vogue, не проявлятиму свої лідерські навички і не всуватиму свої скупі копійки, хай там лідерші розрулюють:)
November 21, 2020
A series of 1-on-1 (or sometimes 1-on-2) interviews (in audiobook version: recorded with the live audience). It feels like a talk show. There are 3 reasons to get interested in this book:
* the (presumed) topic of leadership
* the actual selection of guests (all of them are very well known, remarkable figures)
* an intelligent interviewer, without a doubt
Of those 3 reasons, the 1st one fails miserably. Why so? Because this is NOT a book about leadership. Yes, this topic appears, but usually in at most 1 question per interview. Rubenstein does a lot to make his guest present themselves, their history, the struggles and challenges they went through, but there's surprisingly little leadership in that.
It doesn't mean the interviews are not interesting. Some of them are very amusing (e.g. Pelosi trying to stay 100% professional when asked about Trump ;D), the guests are truly relaxed and there's a lot of humour (especially in the initial 1/3 of the book), but there's ... surprisingly little of value and inspiration inside. It feels like a ... talk show ... or an 'easy listening' gap filler just to spend time.
Disappointing.
* the (presumed) topic of leadership
* the actual selection of guests (all of them are very well known, remarkable figures)
* an intelligent interviewer, without a doubt
Of those 3 reasons, the 1st one fails miserably. Why so? Because this is NOT a book about leadership. Yes, this topic appears, but usually in at most 1 question per interview. Rubenstein does a lot to make his guest present themselves, their history, the struggles and challenges they went through, but there's surprisingly little leadership in that.
It doesn't mean the interviews are not interesting. Some of them are very amusing (e.g. Pelosi trying to stay 100% professional when asked about Trump ;D), the guests are truly relaxed and there's a lot of humour (especially in the initial 1/3 of the book), but there's ... surprisingly little of value and inspiration inside. It feels like a ... talk show ... or an 'easy listening' gap filler just to spend time.
Disappointing.
October 27, 2020
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."� Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is a fantastic compilation of David Rubenstein's interviews with a wide variety of leaders who will inspire us all to learn from each other.
Tip: Get the Audio-book to hear each interview directly from the guest.
This is a fantastic compilation of David Rubenstein's interviews with a wide variety of leaders who will inspire us all to learn from each other.
Tip: Get the Audio-book to hear each interview directly from the guest.
January 1, 2021
Follow me! (Infantry motto)
How to Lead� is a fascinating book. I happened to learn about it by watching John Dickerson’s TV interview of David Rubenstein several days ago. What really got me interested was Rubenstein's summary of his book and his list of leadership traits (he mentions more and mostly different ones in his book): Ability to 1. Focus, 2. Communicate, 3. Set priorities, 4. Be humble, 5. Use humor, 6. Inspire and rise to the occasion. He also said that leadership was heavily dependent upon the ability to learn from what one did wrong and, perhaps most importantly, upon the ability to persuade (orally like John F. Kennedy; written like Thomas Jefferson; or by example like George Washington).
While there is no summary as such in the book, Rubenstein does have a fine introduction, discussing his life history and the leadership success he has enjoyed. In this section, he also gives, as more or less a heads-up or reverse-summary (to discern amongst the details that will follow), a somewhat new list of 13 leadership traits he’s found common in his surveying interviews of 31 fairly well-known leaders. The interviews are blocked as chapters in terms of six leadership types, with usually five interviews per type: 1. Visionaries (e.g., Jeff Bezos), 2. Builders (e.g., Phil Knight), 3. Transformers (e.g., Tim Cook), 4. Commanders (e.g., Colin Powell; here Presidents GW Bush and Clinton share a chapter), 5. Decision-makers (e.,g Anthony Fauci), 6. Masters (e.g., Coach K).
With each chapter, Rubenstein starts with an artist’s image of the leader, an important quote coming from the interview, Rubenstein’s overview of the leader, and the interview itself. The interviews are wide-ranging, with some questions very focused, others open-ended. In each case, the conversation is enlightening, engrossing, and often-times salted with Rubenstein’s own particular brand of eye-twinkling, tongue-in-cheek humor. One will definitely learn a lot, not only about a leader’s particular philosophies and general experiences, but the answers to many curious personal items and secrets observers may have heretofore only wondered about. As well, little known trade insights are freely sprinkled throughout, such as why and how Bill Gates came up with Control/Alt/Delete.
After the final interview, Rubenstein ends his book with acknowledgments and short resumes of his leadership interviewees.
Bottom line, I think you’ll find this a unique, well-researched, and engaging must-read for your leadership library.
9/12/2020 Edit: Given some critical reviews of Rubenstein's book, I reread the chapter on Bezos and can see how someone might not like it if they were looking for a cookbook of specific recipes on how to lead at a particular level. I would say that the concepts are there if you look for them, but they're not in recipe form. For those concerned, I recommend they take advantage of the Amazon "Look Inside" function before buying.
Of possible interest:
How to Lead� is a fascinating book. I happened to learn about it by watching John Dickerson’s TV interview of David Rubenstein several days ago. What really got me interested was Rubenstein's summary of his book and his list of leadership traits (he mentions more and mostly different ones in his book): Ability to 1. Focus, 2. Communicate, 3. Set priorities, 4. Be humble, 5. Use humor, 6. Inspire and rise to the occasion. He also said that leadership was heavily dependent upon the ability to learn from what one did wrong and, perhaps most importantly, upon the ability to persuade (orally like John F. Kennedy; written like Thomas Jefferson; or by example like George Washington).
While there is no summary as such in the book, Rubenstein does have a fine introduction, discussing his life history and the leadership success he has enjoyed. In this section, he also gives, as more or less a heads-up or reverse-summary (to discern amongst the details that will follow), a somewhat new list of 13 leadership traits he’s found common in his surveying interviews of 31 fairly well-known leaders. The interviews are blocked as chapters in terms of six leadership types, with usually five interviews per type: 1. Visionaries (e.g., Jeff Bezos), 2. Builders (e.g., Phil Knight), 3. Transformers (e.g., Tim Cook), 4. Commanders (e.g., Colin Powell; here Presidents GW Bush and Clinton share a chapter), 5. Decision-makers (e.,g Anthony Fauci), 6. Masters (e.g., Coach K).
With each chapter, Rubenstein starts with an artist’s image of the leader, an important quote coming from the interview, Rubenstein’s overview of the leader, and the interview itself. The interviews are wide-ranging, with some questions very focused, others open-ended. In each case, the conversation is enlightening, engrossing, and often-times salted with Rubenstein’s own particular brand of eye-twinkling, tongue-in-cheek humor. One will definitely learn a lot, not only about a leader’s particular philosophies and general experiences, but the answers to many curious personal items and secrets observers may have heretofore only wondered about. As well, little known trade insights are freely sprinkled throughout, such as why and how Bill Gates came up with Control/Alt/Delete.
After the final interview, Rubenstein ends his book with acknowledgments and short resumes of his leadership interviewees.
Bottom line, I think you’ll find this a unique, well-researched, and engaging must-read for your leadership library.
9/12/2020 Edit: Given some critical reviews of Rubenstein's book, I reread the chapter on Bezos and can see how someone might not like it if they were looking for a cookbook of specific recipes on how to lead at a particular level. I would say that the concepts are there if you look for them, but they're not in recipe form. For those concerned, I recommend they take advantage of the Amazon "Look Inside" function before buying.
Of possible interest:
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August 13, 2024koniec tego kurwa przeczytalam polowe i mi wystarczy jacys bajecznie bogaci bilionerzy pierdola jak zdobyli caly hajs i ze sie nie liczy napewno na kapitule nie wywpytaja mnie o wszystko wiec jbc
November 18, 2020
How to Lead is a collection of short (5-10 page) interviews with executives, politicians, and a handful of artists and athletes about how they became so successful, conducted by private equity pioneer and billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein. As such, there's a lot of people and lot of repetition of biographical beats (highly successful people tend to move from high to high), and not much analysis. While Rubenstein is a peer to these interviewees, he shies away from hard questions, letting his subjects present their version of a 'best of' story. The closest he comes to pressing a point is asking Colin Powell about his speech to the UN which provided the pretext for the 2003 invasion. Powell deflects blame to the CIA.
I got this book for free from work, and it's fine in short bites. You can probably find an anecdote you like somewhere in there. But for any kind of systematic thought about leadership, you'll need another book.
I got this book for free from work, and it's fine in short bites. You can probably find an anecdote you like somewhere in there. But for any kind of systematic thought about leadership, you'll need another book.
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November 17, 2020I will refrain from giving this book a star review since I did not read it in its entirety. I cherry-picked the interviews that I thought would be interesting and read only those. I have a few thoughts about this book. First, based on the individuals that the author selected to interview and the questions he asked, I think that he conflates wealth and success with leadership. Success in business does not equal great leadership of people. Theses concepts are fundamentally not the same thing. That being said, there were a few helpful nuggets here. The interview with Yo-Yo Ma was absolutely delightful and intriguing. I wish this portion had been much longer, because I felt that there was much more beneath the surface with this fascinating man.
April 14, 2024
Algunas entrevistas me gustaron pero esperaba más. Esta bueno para ver distintos enfoques de liderazgo pero se queda corto con las preguntas, falta indagar un poco más para mi gusto.
La entrevista a Indra Nooyi, ex presidente y ex directora ejecutiva de PepsiCO es de las que más me gusto. En un momento cuenta que escribió cartas a las madres de los ejecutivos para contarles cómo lo estaban haciendo sus hijos, muy copado.
Algunas respuestas que quiero recordar:
“Se puede tener todo? Esa es la gran pregunta. Si tienes un sistema de apoyo adecuado, un cónyuge comprensivo (en caso que te quieras casar), si estás dispuesta a hacer todas las concesiones necesarias, puedes tenerlo todo. Habrá angustia a veces, habrá pena, sufrirás algún daño colateral. Bueno, tendrás que vivir con ello� Indra Nooyi.
“La honradez me parece la principal cualidad de un gran líder. Si pierdes la confianza de la gente, lo pierdes todo. Además, los buenos líderes son visionarios, es decir, ven el mundo como debería ser y no cómo es.� Condoleeza Rice.
“…y es que a veces haces muchas cosas porque eres demasiado tonto para saber que no puedes hacerlas. Estás ahí y sigues intentando hacer cosas y al final ocurre algo.� Bill Clinton
La entrevista a Indra Nooyi, ex presidente y ex directora ejecutiva de PepsiCO es de las que más me gusto. En un momento cuenta que escribió cartas a las madres de los ejecutivos para contarles cómo lo estaban haciendo sus hijos, muy copado.
Algunas respuestas que quiero recordar:
“Se puede tener todo? Esa es la gran pregunta. Si tienes un sistema de apoyo adecuado, un cónyuge comprensivo (en caso que te quieras casar), si estás dispuesta a hacer todas las concesiones necesarias, puedes tenerlo todo. Habrá angustia a veces, habrá pena, sufrirás algún daño colateral. Bueno, tendrás que vivir con ello� Indra Nooyi.
“La honradez me parece la principal cualidad de un gran líder. Si pierdes la confianza de la gente, lo pierdes todo. Además, los buenos líderes son visionarios, es decir, ven el mundo como debería ser y no cómo es.� Condoleeza Rice.
“…y es que a veces haces muchas cosas porque eres demasiado tonto para saber que no puedes hacerlas. Estás ahí y sigues intentando hacer cosas y al final ocurre algo.� Bill Clinton
August 13, 2021
This book is full of sort of light but nevertheless valuable advice about leadership and mastery from people who know something about those things. I firmly believe that people who place themselves in positions of leadership have a responsibility to try to better themselves as much as possible, even if it’s something small like reading this book. The book is kind of a light read even though it’s long and not on a light subject, and chapters (which are really interviews) are nice and short. I recommend to anyone who is running a little short on inspiration.
March 24, 2024
Entrevistas muy interesantes a personajes americanos o del entorno americano, de muy distintos tipos, pero todos líderes en sus diferentes campos. Sin desperdicio.
April 2, 2023
Дуже проста, але дуже надихаюча книга з купою цікавих думок - якщо вам подоьається більше читати, а не слухати купу подкастів.
December 30, 2020
Toimii parhaiten äänikirjana. Joukko erinomaisia haastatteluita eri johtamisen kulttuureihin. Vaikka kaikki ovat enemmän tai vähemmän USA sidonnaisia, erot ovat huomattavia. Läpileikkaus eri tyyleihin luo myös hyvän mahdollisuuden reflektoida. Äänikirjana loi tunnelman sarjasta podcasteja. Luettuna kirjana oli enemmän haastattelunovellien kokoelma. Hyvä "välipalakirja".
November 30, 2020
David Rubenstein is such a master interviewer! I found his probing questions on how his guests found the ability to lead and continued to cultivate their skills time well spent.
13 key attributes to be helpful to grow to a leader:
1. Luck
2. Desire to succeed
3. Pursuit of something new and unique
4. Hard work / Long hours (find something that provides pleasure and intellectual joy)
5. Focus (broaden your areas only after your credibility has been established)
6. Failure (you'll grow from it and also teaches you humility)
7. Persistence
8. Persuasiveness (write or say something that inspires others)
9. Humble demeanor
10. Credit-sharing (victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan)
11. Ability to keep learning
12. Integrity
13. Responding to crises
Inspiring:
- Marilyn Hewson worked nights (11pm to 7am) while attending the University of Alabama, then school from 8am to 1pm/2pm. She would then sleep. She worked full-time to pay her way through school. She graduated in 3.5 years.
- Melinda Gates: "A philanthropy [e.g., foundations] can experiment with their own money , whereas government has to be more cautious with taxpayer money."
- Indra Nooyi: I realized I was a product of my upbringing and that my parents get the credit because it's what they did for me that allowed me to be who I am today...so, I wrote to each parent [of my direct reports] a personal paragraph of what their child was doing at Pepsi, and said, "Thank you for the gift of your child to our company."
13 key attributes to be helpful to grow to a leader:
1. Luck
2. Desire to succeed
3. Pursuit of something new and unique
4. Hard work / Long hours (find something that provides pleasure and intellectual joy)
5. Focus (broaden your areas only after your credibility has been established)
6. Failure (you'll grow from it and also teaches you humility)
7. Persistence
8. Persuasiveness (write or say something that inspires others)
9. Humble demeanor
10. Credit-sharing (victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan)
11. Ability to keep learning
12. Integrity
13. Responding to crises
Inspiring:
- Marilyn Hewson worked nights (11pm to 7am) while attending the University of Alabama, then school from 8am to 1pm/2pm. She would then sleep. She worked full-time to pay her way through school. She graduated in 3.5 years.
- Melinda Gates: "A philanthropy [e.g., foundations] can experiment with their own money , whereas government has to be more cautious with taxpayer money."
- Indra Nooyi: I realized I was a product of my upbringing and that my parents get the credit because it's what they did for me that allowed me to be who I am today...so, I wrote to each parent [of my direct reports] a personal paragraph of what their child was doing at Pepsi, and said, "Thank you for the gift of your child to our company."
March 24, 2024
For over two-decades, I have found myself attracted to reading books on leaders and leadership. When I decided on Rubenstein's book it was a semi-impulse purchase. I really thought what new could I discover on the topic. I learned of David Rubenstein recently as a co-chair of the 2023 National Book Festival I attended. I crossed paths with him on his way to his C-Span Book 2 interview about the festival. After watching the interview briefly, I thought, hmm, this guy is quirky but serious about promoting reading. Only recently did I find out about his extensive background. So, I bought the book, thinking, well if I buy it and find nothing new, I can always give it away to readers new to the leadership genre. I may still do that. It was much of the same information you read in articles or watch in interviews of the well-known. The real difference was the message that ordinary people can do extraordinary things in a lifetime. Yes, of course, those profiled are renowned, distinguished, rich and all-that. Rubenstein has just a slightly different point he gets to the heart of. Read deeper and you find that different people have unique potential. When you are curious, courageous and focus on that one thing unique to you, you can become a leader too, maybe never as renowned but just as important and what the world needs.
May 9, 2021
Bitirmekte zorlandığım bir kitap oldu.
Kitapla ilgili heralde en büyük eleştirim, içeriğin başlığıyla hiç alakası olmaması. Kitaptan yönetmeye dair bir bilgi kırıntısı edinmeniz imkansız, dünyanın en büyük CEO, girişimci, stratejist ay neyse artık tarif edilen tiplerinden bir bilgelik, bir irfan falan da yok.
Sesli kitap versiyonu tamamen işte bu "büyük büyük lider" kişilerle karşılıklı bir sohbet programı şeklinde yapılmış. Hayatlarının ilk dönemindeki sıkıntıları, Amerika'ya ve/veya bulundukları pozisyonlara gelirkenki zorlukları falan dinliyorsunuz. Bol bol hikaye anlatıyorlar, ama hadi bize "yönetme sırlarınızı anlatın" falan gibi doğrudan bir soru bile sorulmuyor. Seçilen kişilerin eh zengin ve ünlü kişiler olduğu kesin, ama bütününde liderliklerini de şüpheli bulduğum epey bir insan oldu. Kitap doğrusu beklentimi hiç karşılamadı, bu gevezeliğin ve laf kalabalığının içinde, liderliği geçelim, hayat hikayelerinde de önemli bir bilgelik kırıntısına raslamadım.
Hele Bill ve Melinda Gates'in boşanma haberini aldığımız şu sırada, Bill'in hayatındaki en önemli şeyin aile babası olmak, işte iyi bir eş ve koca olmanın hayatındaki en büyük başarısı falan diye açıklaması, Melinda'da keza benzer açıklamaları baya bir güldürdü.
Derin bir içeriği olmayan, zaman öldürmek için falan fonda iş yaparken falan dinlenebilecek bir eser. Hiç bir beklentimi karşılamadı.
Kitapla ilgili heralde en büyük eleştirim, içeriğin başlığıyla hiç alakası olmaması. Kitaptan yönetmeye dair bir bilgi kırıntısı edinmeniz imkansız, dünyanın en büyük CEO, girişimci, stratejist ay neyse artık tarif edilen tiplerinden bir bilgelik, bir irfan falan da yok.
Sesli kitap versiyonu tamamen işte bu "büyük büyük lider" kişilerle karşılıklı bir sohbet programı şeklinde yapılmış. Hayatlarının ilk dönemindeki sıkıntıları, Amerika'ya ve/veya bulundukları pozisyonlara gelirkenki zorlukları falan dinliyorsunuz. Bol bol hikaye anlatıyorlar, ama hadi bize "yönetme sırlarınızı anlatın" falan gibi doğrudan bir soru bile sorulmuyor. Seçilen kişilerin eh zengin ve ünlü kişiler olduğu kesin, ama bütününde liderliklerini de şüpheli bulduğum epey bir insan oldu. Kitap doğrusu beklentimi hiç karşılamadı, bu gevezeliğin ve laf kalabalığının içinde, liderliği geçelim, hayat hikayelerinde de önemli bir bilgelik kırıntısına raslamadım.
Hele Bill ve Melinda Gates'in boşanma haberini aldığımız şu sırada, Bill'in hayatındaki en önemli şeyin aile babası olmak, işte iyi bir eş ve koca olmanın hayatındaki en büyük başarısı falan diye açıklaması, Melinda'da keza benzer açıklamaları baya bir güldürdü.
Derin bir içeriği olmayan, zaman öldürmek için falan fonda iş yaparken falan dinlenebilecek bir eser. Hiç bir beklentimi karşılamadı.
February 16, 2022
the title gives you the vibes of it being atrocious crap
and well it might be one third true
but if you see it simply as an 'interview book'
and you are curious of at least two or three of these people
then it is worth reading
even if some of the book grates on you
one thing i think would make an excellent game is to give the book to a friend
and you get them to rate the people in the book from:
0 to 10 as jerk
0 to 10 as genius
and then let them read one interview
and then ask for their ratings - a second time!
I actually learned how to lead with this book.
I wished that three of the most noxious famous people within these pages
needed to be torn out and used to line a bird cage or cat litter box
but there were no perforations to yank the pages out
but i used my initiative and newly found 'leadership skills'
and tore out the pages out
through sheer G. Gordon Liddyesque Willpower!
Everyone but Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos will be proud of me
(hint, hint)
---
mediocre storytelling at times
but i still think 20% of the book
saves the other 80%
and well it might be one third true
but if you see it simply as an 'interview book'
and you are curious of at least two or three of these people
then it is worth reading
even if some of the book grates on you
one thing i think would make an excellent game is to give the book to a friend
and you get them to rate the people in the book from:
0 to 10 as jerk
0 to 10 as genius
and then let them read one interview
and then ask for their ratings - a second time!
I actually learned how to lead with this book.
I wished that three of the most noxious famous people within these pages
needed to be torn out and used to line a bird cage or cat litter box
but there were no perforations to yank the pages out
but i used my initiative and newly found 'leadership skills'
and tore out the pages out
through sheer G. Gordon Liddyesque Willpower!
Everyone but Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos will be proud of me
(hint, hint)
---
mediocre storytelling at times
but i still think 20% of the book
saves the other 80%
February 15, 2021
David Rubenstein has spoken with the world’s highest-performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. "How to Lead" puts conversations of leaders like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and more into a leadership guide.
One of the things I liked about this book is that in the introduction, Mr. Rubenstein picked out all the characteristics of great leaders - the things he found in himself, in his experience, and in the many people he's interviewed. Those are the keys to the book: "Luck, desire to succeed, the pursuit of something new and unique, hard work/long hours, focus, failure, persistence, persuasiveness, humble demeanor, credit sharing, the ability to keep learning, integrity, and responding to crises."
To listen to my interview with the author, go to my podcast at:
One of the things I liked about this book is that in the introduction, Mr. Rubenstein picked out all the characteristics of great leaders - the things he found in himself, in his experience, and in the many people he's interviewed. Those are the keys to the book: "Luck, desire to succeed, the pursuit of something new and unique, hard work/long hours, focus, failure, persistence, persuasiveness, humble demeanor, credit sharing, the ability to keep learning, integrity, and responding to crises."
To listen to my interview with the author, go to my podcast at:
June 9, 2022
Had this one on my nightstand for a while. Didn't love it, but don't regret having read it. Learned some interesting tidbits about profiled people. No great insight or new a-has about leadership. A bit of a vanity piece for Rubenstein. Each profile began with how he knew the subject and had interviewed them before writing the book. (The book is a compilation of previous interviews. I think he had time on his hands during Covid.) Favorite profile was one of the shortest - Yo-Yo Ma's - who came off as grounded in his priorities.
April 29, 2021
I learned so much from this read, apart from the leadership tips and tricks of some of the world’s greatest leaders. Truly a read that will help you gain a better understanding that at the end of the day, all of these game changers are just regular individuals and that their approach to their day to day lives is what helped shape them into becoming such inspirational icons.
December 1, 2020
Some of the interviews are better than others. It’s a good book to leaf through and read the interviews with people you know/find interesting.
January 2, 2021
I would highly recommend listening to this on audiobook, the interviews are tapes with the interviewees.
Four stars because I enjoyed the first three categories didn’t love the last two.
Four stars because I enjoyed the first three categories didn’t love the last two.
February 5, 2023
I didn’t like it much. It’s more of a conversation style, question answer format - I couldn’t take much learnings from this. The problem was it came to me a bit shallow and short with each leader to get any benefit. I’d rather read something more in depth and focused on a smaller circle. Didn’t work for me. Can’t recommend this one. Avoidable.
February 11, 2022
Słabo przeredagowana, dużo błędów w składni i wypaczania sensu zdań. Prowadzący wywiady zadaje czasem dziwne pytania, urywa niektóre ciekawe wątki, co chyba nie jest zbyt dobrą cechą osoby, która przeprowadza wywiady. Mimo wszystko niektóre wywiady całkiem ciekawe i warte przeczytania. 2,5
April 20, 2021
Seems like these days, writing a book consists of a transcript of a podcast or an interview. Not saying that this is a bad book. But rather, interesting how books are coming about.
David’s connection with Bloomberg opened even more avenues for him to meet event more influential billionaires and well known figures to his already thick contact books.
David asks prominent questions on their lively hood and shows interests in them.
He interviews big names and also not so big names that main stream media doesn’t cover that often. Regardless, you will still walk away with stories that will touch your heart as it has to mine.
David’s connection with Bloomberg opened even more avenues for him to meet event more influential billionaires and well known figures to his already thick contact books.
David asks prominent questions on their lively hood and shows interests in them.
He interviews big names and also not so big names that main stream media doesn’t cover that often. Regardless, you will still walk away with stories that will touch your heart as it has to mine.
January 5, 2024
How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers by David Rubenstein.
4/5 rating. 397 pages.
Book #13 of 2021. Read February 6, 2021.
This is an incredibly interesting compilation of interviews by David with some of the great leaders of today (as of mid-2020).
There are 31 different leaders in here, split into categories of visionaries, builders, transformers, commanders, and decision-makers. If you are looking for advice and some backgrounds on these incredible people, then this book is absolutely for you! I think the best way to sum up this book is to include some of my favorite quotes from it:
- "Nothing focuses the mind like a well-written book."
- "With your loved ones, you bet on them. You're not betting on the idea. You are betting on the person." - Jeff Bezos
- "Your legacy is every life that you've touched. We like to think that these great, philanthropic moments are the ones that leave the impact, or will make the huge difference in the world, but it's really what you do every day. It's how you use your life to be a light to somebody else's. And it's how you use your work as an expression of your own art, whatever that is." - Oprah
- "I get to do every day what I love, with people I love. It doesn't get any better than that." - Warren Buffett
- "'There's a bunch of former investment bankers in my class. I don't like any of them. They think they know everything, and they're pretty arrogant.' I said, 'I'm an engineer. We do know everything. It bothers us.'" - Robert F. Smith
- "I always thought I'd have a better life if I could help somebody else have a better life too." - Bill Clinton
- "I really believed that it was most important to be together - that their home was with the people who loved them." - Renée Fleming
Quotes:
"Sometimes lightning strikes for those who take chances."
"When you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct, intuition, taste, heart." - Jeff Bezos
"It's one of those decisions I made with my heart and not my head. I basically said, 'When I'm eighty, I want to have minimized the number of regrets that I have in my life.' Most of our regrets are acts of omission. They're things we didn't try. It's the path untraveled. Those are the things that haunt us." - Jeff Bezos
"You don't realize, until you look back, how parents are so important. It's just a really big deal." - Jeff Bezos
"I don't think it's important for me to be remembered specifically." - Bill Gates
"I never go into a venture with the idea of making a profit. If you can create the best in its field, generally speaking you'll find that you'll pay the bills and you'll make a profit." -Richard Branson
"I realized a couple of years in that you run your own race better than anybody. If you take the time to see what everybody else is doing, you lose your ground. I could be a better me than I could be anybody else. No need to try to compare myself to other people." - Oprah
"What we all want is to be able to live out the truest, highest expression of ourselves as a human being." - Oprah
"That's true for everybody who's watching or listening, that every argument that you ever have, every encounter, the person just wants to know, 'Did you hear me? Did you see me? And did I say anything that mattered?'" - Oprah
"[I]n a country this rich, anybody willing to work forty hours a week should have a decent life." - Warren Buffett
"But I really do feel that anybody that's making millions of dollars a year should have a combined payroll-and-income tax that is at least 30 percent." - WB
"Look for the job that you would want to hold if you didn't need a job." - WB
"Whether you make x or 120 percent of x isn't remotely as important, in most cases, as whether you marry the right person and you also find something that you would do if you didn't need the money."
"Like all things, you look for areas that you can bring a unique solution to and solve a problem." - RFS
"Swing for the fences. You are taking on the things that society has left behind. To do that, you are going to have to take risks, and I expect you to take risks." - Warren Buffett
"What I've seen in twenty years of work with the foundation is that if we can help lift up all women, we will change the world." - Melinda Gates
"Bill [Gates] and Warren [Buffett] are really clear that they could not have founded their businesses if it had been, say, in Malawi or Mozambique. We benefit from what society gives us, the infrastructure, so at least half [of their wealth] should go back to society." - MG
"In discussing what makes a leader, Eric emphasizes the importance of mastering one skill or area before branching out to other areas. I echo that advice. At the outset of a career, it is essential to become an expert in something, so that others will come to you for help and guidance."
"Families eat dinner together, and [Sergey Brin] wanted the company to be a family. If you made sure people had proper, good food - breakfast, lunch, and dinner - they would literally work as teams." - Eric Schmidt
"We view the stock price and revenues and profits as a result of doing things right on the innovation side, on the creativity side, focusing on the right products. Treating customers like they're jewels and focusing on the user experience." - Tim Cook
"Very simply, I think if you could wave a wand and everybody in the world would treat each other with dignity and respect, there are many problems that would go away." - TC
"But the lesson I learned from my mother is to never let other people define who you are." - Ginni Rometty
"It's hard to dream to be something if you don't see other people like you." - GR
"I have always had the viewpoint that every situation is a learning opportunity..." - GR
"The most important thing is to keep both ears open, because you never know if a nugget of an idea can actually translate to a big success in the company."
"[My great-uncle] taught me that everybody's got a story and most people can't tell it, and that's sad." - Bill Clinton
"That's what leadership is all about - inspiring followers." - General Colin Powell
"Whether you're the commander in Iraq or Afghanistan, or the CEO of The Carlyle Group or KKR or Amazon, you have to get the big ideas right. You have to communicate those big ideas effectively through the breadth and depth of your organization. You have to oversee their implementation. And you have to determine how to refine the big ideas - and then do it all over again." - General David Petraeus
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;...and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Teddy Roosevelt
"My parents were people who had me convinced that even if I couldn't have a hamburger at Woolworth's lunch counter, I could be president of the United States if I wanted to be." - Condoleezza Rice
"[M]y father once said to me, 'If somebody doesn't want to sit next to you because you're black, that's fine, as long as they move.' In other words, don't take somebody else's prejudice on you. It's their fault, their problem, not your problem." - CR
"Your power is the reason your opponents come after you..."
"Seventy to 75 percent of all the new infections that humans get infected with come from an animal." - Anthony Fauci
"You don't dictate to people. But if you let them know what your vision is, hire the best people,and then don't get in their way, those are the qualities of a good leader." - AF
"Power walk means I'm trying to catch up with my wife, who's walking faster than I am." - AF
"'Dear, I'd like to tell you the secret of a happy marriage.' 'I'd love to hear it. What is it?' 'Every now and then,' [my husband's mother] said, 'it helps to be a little deaf.' I've followed that sage advice assiduously to this very day, in dealing with my colleagues. If an unkind or thoughtless word is said, I just tune out." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"If the fire dies in the hearts of people, no constitution and no judge can restore it." - Judge Learned Hand
"You've got to believe in what you can do. You've got to learn to play within yourself - in all walks of life." - Jack Nicklaus
"The other thing is that you're not going to get there alone. Be on a team. Surround yourself with good people and learn how to listen. You're not going to learn with you just talking. And when you do talk, converse. Don't make excuses. Figure out the solution. You don't have to figure it out yourself." - Mike Krzyzewski
"I don't have a wish list. What I do have is an open mind, and a belief in the future. I absolutely believe that things come to us if we work hard, we're dedicated, we love what we're doing, and we're passionate." - Renee Fleming
"The most important thing I can do is to be totally present and totally engaged. There's nothing more important." - Yo-Yo Ma
"Music, live music, is a communion." - Yo-Yo Ma
4/5 rating. 397 pages.
Book #13 of 2021. Read February 6, 2021.
This is an incredibly interesting compilation of interviews by David with some of the great leaders of today (as of mid-2020).
There are 31 different leaders in here, split into categories of visionaries, builders, transformers, commanders, and decision-makers. If you are looking for advice and some backgrounds on these incredible people, then this book is absolutely for you! I think the best way to sum up this book is to include some of my favorite quotes from it:
- "Nothing focuses the mind like a well-written book."
- "With your loved ones, you bet on them. You're not betting on the idea. You are betting on the person." - Jeff Bezos
- "Your legacy is every life that you've touched. We like to think that these great, philanthropic moments are the ones that leave the impact, or will make the huge difference in the world, but it's really what you do every day. It's how you use your life to be a light to somebody else's. And it's how you use your work as an expression of your own art, whatever that is." - Oprah
- "I get to do every day what I love, with people I love. It doesn't get any better than that." - Warren Buffett
- "'There's a bunch of former investment bankers in my class. I don't like any of them. They think they know everything, and they're pretty arrogant.' I said, 'I'm an engineer. We do know everything. It bothers us.'" - Robert F. Smith
- "I always thought I'd have a better life if I could help somebody else have a better life too." - Bill Clinton
- "I really believed that it was most important to be together - that their home was with the people who loved them." - Renée Fleming
Quotes:
"Sometimes lightning strikes for those who take chances."
"When you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct, intuition, taste, heart." - Jeff Bezos
"It's one of those decisions I made with my heart and not my head. I basically said, 'When I'm eighty, I want to have minimized the number of regrets that I have in my life.' Most of our regrets are acts of omission. They're things we didn't try. It's the path untraveled. Those are the things that haunt us." - Jeff Bezos
"You don't realize, until you look back, how parents are so important. It's just a really big deal." - Jeff Bezos
"I don't think it's important for me to be remembered specifically." - Bill Gates
"I never go into a venture with the idea of making a profit. If you can create the best in its field, generally speaking you'll find that you'll pay the bills and you'll make a profit." -Richard Branson
"I realized a couple of years in that you run your own race better than anybody. If you take the time to see what everybody else is doing, you lose your ground. I could be a better me than I could be anybody else. No need to try to compare myself to other people." - Oprah
"What we all want is to be able to live out the truest, highest expression of ourselves as a human being." - Oprah
"That's true for everybody who's watching or listening, that every argument that you ever have, every encounter, the person just wants to know, 'Did you hear me? Did you see me? And did I say anything that mattered?'" - Oprah
"[I]n a country this rich, anybody willing to work forty hours a week should have a decent life." - Warren Buffett
"But I really do feel that anybody that's making millions of dollars a year should have a combined payroll-and-income tax that is at least 30 percent." - WB
"Look for the job that you would want to hold if you didn't need a job." - WB
"Whether you make x or 120 percent of x isn't remotely as important, in most cases, as whether you marry the right person and you also find something that you would do if you didn't need the money."
"Like all things, you look for areas that you can bring a unique solution to and solve a problem." - RFS
"Swing for the fences. You are taking on the things that society has left behind. To do that, you are going to have to take risks, and I expect you to take risks." - Warren Buffett
"What I've seen in twenty years of work with the foundation is that if we can help lift up all women, we will change the world." - Melinda Gates
"Bill [Gates] and Warren [Buffett] are really clear that they could not have founded their businesses if it had been, say, in Malawi or Mozambique. We benefit from what society gives us, the infrastructure, so at least half [of their wealth] should go back to society." - MG
"In discussing what makes a leader, Eric emphasizes the importance of mastering one skill or area before branching out to other areas. I echo that advice. At the outset of a career, it is essential to become an expert in something, so that others will come to you for help and guidance."
"Families eat dinner together, and [Sergey Brin] wanted the company to be a family. If you made sure people had proper, good food - breakfast, lunch, and dinner - they would literally work as teams." - Eric Schmidt
"We view the stock price and revenues and profits as a result of doing things right on the innovation side, on the creativity side, focusing on the right products. Treating customers like they're jewels and focusing on the user experience." - Tim Cook
"Very simply, I think if you could wave a wand and everybody in the world would treat each other with dignity and respect, there are many problems that would go away." - TC
"But the lesson I learned from my mother is to never let other people define who you are." - Ginni Rometty
"It's hard to dream to be something if you don't see other people like you." - GR
"I have always had the viewpoint that every situation is a learning opportunity..." - GR
"The most important thing is to keep both ears open, because you never know if a nugget of an idea can actually translate to a big success in the company."
"[My great-uncle] taught me that everybody's got a story and most people can't tell it, and that's sad." - Bill Clinton
"That's what leadership is all about - inspiring followers." - General Colin Powell
"Whether you're the commander in Iraq or Afghanistan, or the CEO of The Carlyle Group or KKR or Amazon, you have to get the big ideas right. You have to communicate those big ideas effectively through the breadth and depth of your organization. You have to oversee their implementation. And you have to determine how to refine the big ideas - and then do it all over again." - General David Petraeus
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;...and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Teddy Roosevelt
"My parents were people who had me convinced that even if I couldn't have a hamburger at Woolworth's lunch counter, I could be president of the United States if I wanted to be." - Condoleezza Rice
"[M]y father once said to me, 'If somebody doesn't want to sit next to you because you're black, that's fine, as long as they move.' In other words, don't take somebody else's prejudice on you. It's their fault, their problem, not your problem." - CR
"Your power is the reason your opponents come after you..."
"Seventy to 75 percent of all the new infections that humans get infected with come from an animal." - Anthony Fauci
"You don't dictate to people. But if you let them know what your vision is, hire the best people,and then don't get in their way, those are the qualities of a good leader." - AF
"Power walk means I'm trying to catch up with my wife, who's walking faster than I am." - AF
"'Dear, I'd like to tell you the secret of a happy marriage.' 'I'd love to hear it. What is it?' 'Every now and then,' [my husband's mother] said, 'it helps to be a little deaf.' I've followed that sage advice assiduously to this very day, in dealing with my colleagues. If an unkind or thoughtless word is said, I just tune out." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"If the fire dies in the hearts of people, no constitution and no judge can restore it." - Judge Learned Hand
"You've got to believe in what you can do. You've got to learn to play within yourself - in all walks of life." - Jack Nicklaus
"The other thing is that you're not going to get there alone. Be on a team. Surround yourself with good people and learn how to listen. You're not going to learn with you just talking. And when you do talk, converse. Don't make excuses. Figure out the solution. You don't have to figure it out yourself." - Mike Krzyzewski
"I don't have a wish list. What I do have is an open mind, and a belief in the future. I absolutely believe that things come to us if we work hard, we're dedicated, we love what we're doing, and we're passionate." - Renee Fleming
"The most important thing I can do is to be totally present and totally engaged. There's nothing more important." - Yo-Yo Ma
"Music, live music, is a communion." - Yo-Yo Ma
September 12, 2020
Wonderfully edited and crisp interviews with a wide range of successful leaders from a variety of fields. The author is a gifted interviewer and writer (and a wealthy provide equity financier) with extraordinary access to the individuals featured in the book.
The interviews are full of golden nuggets of leadership wisdom, some of which is casually thrown out in an off the cuff remark or a witty riposte to a question.
The most interesting interviews are those with former presidents and Secretaries of State. Their charm and humility, not to mention their sophisticated intellect, takes us back to a time when civil discourse was an unwritten rule of public office. The stories of individuals who overcame prejudices - against women, minorities - provide us with very simple lessons. Maintain your divinity, stay focused, persevere, and rise above it all.
The books highlights a universal set of leadership lessons - hard work, integrity, focus, concern for fellow humans. It’s a welcome reminder of who we are and who we can be at a time when our social fabric has been torn to shreds by mean-spirited political leadership and atavistic tendencies that pit people against one another in pursuit of personal glory and political gain. True leadership rises above it all and acknowledges that we all serve a greater purpose - now and for future generations.
The interviews are full of golden nuggets of leadership wisdom, some of which is casually thrown out in an off the cuff remark or a witty riposte to a question.
The most interesting interviews are those with former presidents and Secretaries of State. Their charm and humility, not to mention their sophisticated intellect, takes us back to a time when civil discourse was an unwritten rule of public office. The stories of individuals who overcame prejudices - against women, minorities - provide us with very simple lessons. Maintain your divinity, stay focused, persevere, and rise above it all.
The books highlights a universal set of leadership lessons - hard work, integrity, focus, concern for fellow humans. It’s a welcome reminder of who we are and who we can be at a time when our social fabric has been torn to shreds by mean-spirited political leadership and atavistic tendencies that pit people against one another in pursuit of personal glory and political gain. True leadership rises above it all and acknowledges that we all serve a greater purpose - now and for future generations.
April 8, 2021
From an unabashed admirer of David Rubenstein, this may certainly be a subjective review. Any chance to spend a few hours with Mr. Rubenstein - either in person, watching his show on Bloomberg TV, or reading his books must be taken. While he is often not the subject, even through his interviews one can only learn from an exemplary life and the people he has come across and shared experiences and lessons with as a true peer. There are some common gems about leadership traits and habits that come through in the interviews, but for me the desire to read this was one more piece of absorption of life from DR's perspective and circle of friends...
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April 1, 2021Positive: variety of short interviews from a broad range of people. It was interesting to dip into the lives of people who have done so much. Neat thing about the audio book is you get to listen to the actual recordings of the interviews. Very accessible book for interview podcast listeners.
Negative: Because there are so many interviews you don't get really in-depth and there seemed to be a lot of missed opportunities for interesting conversation. Also the lens felt really capitalist and status driven, which especially came to light in Yo Yo Ma's interview who kept trying to say he didn't play for awards and Rubenstein just kept asking the question over and over.
Overall an interesting read even if there were moments I was hollering at David in the car.
Negative: Because there are so many interviews you don't get really in-depth and there seemed to be a lot of missed opportunities for interesting conversation. Also the lens felt really capitalist and status driven, which especially came to light in Yo Yo Ma's interview who kept trying to say he didn't play for awards and Rubenstein just kept asking the question over and over.
Overall an interesting read even if there were moments I was hollering at David in the car.
January 19, 2021
I mean...I read this book after "Winners take all" by Ananda Giridharadas, so maybe this review is a bit swayed by that. Might want to keep this in mind.
OK. I found this book horrible and extremely superficial. Rubenstein, not surprisingly, is interviewing a bunch of rich people, most of who have done morally indefensible things during their life and career, about how to lead. At very, very few times it tries to be critical and ask difficult questions, but it never comes out genuine. Rubenstien just wants to talk about the superficial stuff that does not hurt anyone and lets him and others stay exactly where they are, with the only change now being having their names in one more book. And just to round this up: this book is not even about leading, most of the time. I don't even know what it was about, to be honest. I finished it in pain.
OK. I found this book horrible and extremely superficial. Rubenstein, not surprisingly, is interviewing a bunch of rich people, most of who have done morally indefensible things during their life and career, about how to lead. At very, very few times it tries to be critical and ask difficult questions, but it never comes out genuine. Rubenstien just wants to talk about the superficial stuff that does not hurt anyone and lets him and others stay exactly where they are, with the only change now being having their names in one more book. And just to round this up: this book is not even about leading, most of the time. I don't even know what it was about, to be honest. I finished it in pain.
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