Episode 314 - 5 Books To Read This Summer As An Entrepreneur
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5 books to read this summer as an entrepreneur: 1. High Output Management by Andy Grove 2. Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt 3. The Seal Next Door by Elena Botello and Kim Powell 4. Multipliers by Liz Wiseman 5. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Patrick Biddy, your host of Value Timmy, and today I'm going to give you five books
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First book, High Output Management by Andy Grove.
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Andy Grove was the former Man of the Year Time Magazine, 1997, he passed away three years
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ago, he wrote another book that I love called Only the Paranoid Survive, just so everybody
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knows, majority of the management companies, companies in Silicon Valley that have management
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Andy Grove is, every way he wrote, like everything about how to take your lunch break, how to
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do your meetings, how to orchestrate a meeting, how to do accountability, everything he wrote
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So, again, what you'll notice about every book I'm recommending to you for this summer
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is, every one of them has to do with you becoming a better leader, better executive, better CEO,
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better at giving, you know, feedback, coaching to the people that you work with, and this
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is probably at the top of the list of these five books.
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Bill Campbell, the reason why they call him the Trillion Dollar Coach, and it's written
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by Eric Schmidt, which I think was the former executive chairman of Google for like 14 years,
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And Bill Campbell was a football coach before, and he started coaching and mentoring multiple
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founders and CEOs that built Trillion Dollar Companies, such as Gates, Jobs, Bezos.
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Like, he is a legend on what he did, and his style of leadership is very, very unique.
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When his funeral came, I mean, it must have been the richest funeral ever with people with
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the highest net were being there, and everybody has something to say about him, about how he
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The Trillion Dollar Coach, highly recommend you go get it ASAP.
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This is about a study they did, I think, around 2,600 different CEOs, and identifying the four
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drivers that helped somebody become a great CEO, and four drivers that get people to want
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to work with a CEO, and then they went a little bit deeper than that.
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I'm not going to get into everything, but it's a very powerful book for you to realize out of
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these 2,600 leaders, CEOs that they studied, what trends did they come up with?
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What kind of clues did it leave on what did well and what didn't do well?
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Well, so again, another great book to read this summer is The Seal Next Door by Elena
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This one I also couldn't put down to the point where I had everybody in our company read it.
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It's the story of how some people in organizations, they're always multiplying themselves.
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They're developing other leaders, and some are diminishers.
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And you'll notice an organization doesn't at all build any leaders, or somebody you watch
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and you'll say, you know, I'd never see that person ever build leaders around them.
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Because there are certain tendencies that diminishes people around you versus multiplies
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And she gets really deep into it on exactly what it is to be a multiplier.
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So another great book I recommend to you for this summer.
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And last but not least, somebody I had as a guest before.
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It's by Jordan Peterson called 12 Rules for Life.
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If you haven't read this book yet, I will tell you one thing about Jordan Peterson.
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If you're a man wanting to find out what it is on a way men are wired to be a man's man,
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If you're a woman who is dating or is trying to figure out how men are in business world,
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in personal life, he explains it in a way that's better than any book I've read.
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And then it applies to every aspect of your life as well.
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Again, there's a reason why he's got a few billion views on Facebook and YouTube combined.
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Everybody is curious to know how this man Jordan Peterson thinks.
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