Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.
Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them―yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want?
To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake.
What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building―the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, a man convicted of murder who ran the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture.
Horowitz connects these leadership examples to modern case-studies, including how Louverture’s cultural techniques were applied (or should have been) by Reed Hastings at Netflix, Travis Kalanick at Uber, and Hillary Clinton, and how Genghis Khan’s vision of cultural inclusiveness has parallels in the work of Don Thompson, the first African-American CEO of McDonalds, and of Maggie Wilderotter, the CEO who led Frontier Communications. Horowitz then offers guidance to help any company understand its own strategy and build a successful culture.
What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Are we there for people in a pinch? Can we be trusted?
Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book aims to help you do the things you need to become the kind of leader you want to be―and others want to follow.
發表於2025-01-27
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評分我們每天三分之一的時間,都會在辦公室裏度過。辦公室,是白日清醒時候人們活動的主要場所。所有人的一言一行,都在塑造著自己,也塑造著企業文化。 成功的企業因何成功?似乎沒有一個定式。但仔細尋根溯源,卻能發現,成功的企業都有自己的企業文化。 這種企業文化,不是掛在...
評分成吉思汗是曆史上的傳奇人物。 從被部落拋棄的棄兒,到一代草原霸主。成吉思汗統一瞭濛古各個部落,成為當時最強大的草原上的力量,建立瞭橫跨歐亞大陸的龐大帝國。 他的身上擁有著太多太多令人為之著迷的秘密。 成吉思汗本名鐵木真,其父是濛古一個偏遠地帶的小遊牧部落泰赤烏...
圖書標籤: 思維 管理 商業與財務 商業 startup 文化 領導力 創業
經曆瞭幾個公司,也是見過不同的文化瞭。對於無論是普通員工還是高層,這裏的方法論都有點難,但是在一些事情有瞭更多的灑脫,作為隻有一個小團隊的人,我覺得找到瞭一些處理問題的方法。
評分#5#he actually praised chance the rapper
評分相對前作,這本更加簡潔一些。公司文化本身比較虛,要把這些虛的東西定義清楚並不容易。
評分之前超級喜歡horowitz的hard thing about hard thing所以十分期待這本書,略略失望不過也值得一看,用瞭古往今來名人公司舉例說明culture的重要性,不瞭解國內公司但是對矽榖這邊太明顯瞭,所以high level設定一些標語真的很重要。
評分我們著名的股東每年會送所有partner一本書。我是頭一迴讀(鮮少讀“正經書”)。從來沒有把自己代入CEO的位置,所以有很多問題沒思考過。打造和堅持一樣難。
What You Do Is Who You Are 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載