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How to Lead
- Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
- Narrated by: David M. Rubenstein
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Summary
Includes live audio recordings!
The New York Times best seller
Number one Wall Street Journal best seller
The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers.
For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein - author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, and host of The David Rubenstein Show - has spoken with the world’s highest performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. How to Lead distills these revealing conversations into an indispensable leadership guidebook.
Gain advice and wisdom from CEOs, presidents, founders, and master performers from the worlds of finance (Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Christine Lagarde, Ken Griffin), tech (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook), entertainment (Oprah Winfrey, Lorne Michaels, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma), sports (Jack Nicklaus, Adam Silver, Coach K, Phil Knight), government (President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nancy Pelosi), and many others.
- Jeff Bezos harnesses the power of wandering, discovering that his best decisions have been made with heart and intuition, rather than analysis.
- Richard Branson never goes into a venture looking to make a profit. He aims to make the best in field.
- Phil Knight views Nike as a marketing company whose product is its most important marketing tool.
- Marillyn Hewson, who grew up in a fatherless home with four siblings in Kansas, quickly learned the importance of self-reliance and the value of a dollar.
How to Lead shares the extraordinary stories of these pioneering agents of change. Discover how each luminary got started and how they handle decision making, failure, innovation, change, and crisis. Learn from their decades of experience as pioneers in their field. No two leaders are the same.
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- Adam Craig
- 31-12-20
Fantastic
A well presented book which will is very insightful and fascinating. The recorded interviews make this an excellent book for audio.
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- Honest reviewer
- 10-09-20
A leadership book devoid of leadership.
This book is a compilation of unstructured interviews lacking any discussion of leadership. I am a student of leadership and leadership principles. Based on the title I expected to have the author discuss the concept of leadership and steps taken by contributors to build teams, to make hard decisions, or to at least provide examples of their leadership within each organization. Instead, the unstructured interviews consisted of rambling stories from people who happen to have been successful in life. There was no guiding mantra or lesson to be taken away and applied to the business world or personal life. If you are considering spending your time on this title for the benefit of yourself or your organization, don't expect any leadership lessons to come from it.
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- SeaCow32
- 29-09-20
Eh
Good start and some good nuggets of info but for the most part very biographical with not much substance. Interesting nonetheless.
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- Deborah
- 20-09-20
Not remotely about “how to lead;” only about personal success
If you want to learn how to lead, read Brene Brown’s “Dare to Lead” which is about how to develop the behaviors that inspire and influence others. This book captures the individual decisions—driven by luck and insight—that led to personal success. I’d give this book 5 stars if it was titled “How to Succeed.” It contains nothing about how to lead other people.
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- Skeeter
- 15-09-20
LOVED IT.. INTERNET VILLIANS, BECAME LOVEABLE..
I truly loved this book..
And David M. Rubenstein seemed to know most of the intervies personally, and brought the best out in them...
I enjoyed hearing their life stories. And how everyone came from different backgrounds, different classes of wealth, or poverty, and ethnicities.... Some trained for their ultimate positions and some were given the positions by who they had previously worked for, knew, or showed their determination to,.. Most were not formerly trained for their prestigious positions....
The interviews I found fascinating, and interesting.. Great individuals who have been villinized by jealously, clashing personalities, or whatever through our electronic media...
I found them very interesting, charming, funny, and charismatic characters.. I believe I will listen to my favorite interviews again...lolol.. I was disappointed they interviewed two of our former Presidents together in the same interview... It just seemed unfair to both, and almost disrespectful of their time.. President Bill Clinton, and President George Walker Bush...
I felt they had a hard time telling their story, with another President in the room to possibly carry the conversation... I would recommend this to anyone who loves reading or listening to intriguing individuals...
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- LindsBrum
- 25-01-21
10% leadership 90% bios
Not a lot of leadership help in this book. Saying 10% of the content is about leadership is really generous. It should be named something else. Most is background and bios of monetarily successful people.
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- MarioP
- 05-01-21
Great idea for a book
Love it. youbwillntoo. Take you time to hear it they. Towards the end I was wanting at the be done. Interviewer was spot on. He know what to do and how to do it.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-01-21
Wow!! One of the best audiobooks I’ve heard
Very interesting from the very beginning! I couldn’t stop listening. I re-listened to almost every one. Each leading perspective is very unique and interesting. I would recommend to everyone.
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- Diane P.
- 28-12-20
Great inspiration
Thank you David Rubenstein for putting together such inspirational leaders. I listened to these interviews over the course of several weeks to stretch out the start’s of my days. I look forward to more from David.
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- hannah rabinowit
- 09-12-20
Excellent
I learned so much and feel inspired by the thoughtful, candid interviews. Thanks for sharing.
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- James S.
- 27-11-20
Inspirational, but in an unintended way!!!
It is inspirational in that David Rubenstein's lack of skill and insight in asking important questions has apparently not hindered his success in life. So many missed opportunities in these interviews for great questions to be asked, and this is evident in the voices of the people he interviews. Rubenstein asks questions that anyone on the street could've looked up the answer to on wikipedia.