Trillion Dollar Coach

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1. GoldpiggyOct 2024
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2. guiambrosApr 2023
   You seem to be off to a good start; being open and willing to learn is an important trait of great leaders.

   Have you reflected on what do you feel is challenging wrt to leading and motivate people? It could be psych safety on the team, your communication style, unclear mission, lack of purpose, high turnover, newly formed team, etc, etc.

   It's easier when you have 1-2 areas that you know you need to get better at, and then intentionally invest time and energy. It also helps to make your team aware that you're trying to improve on those areas, so a) you demonstrate vulnerability and effort to improve your own areas for development, and b) you need their help to give you candid feedback, so you can improve more quickly.

   Leading teams is probably one of the hardest professional challenges I've ever faced, but it can be incredibly fulfilling as well. I hope you end up enjoying it.

   Here's my recommended reading for new-ish managers. These are the books I wish I had read when I first started managing people:

   1) Radical Candor, by Kim Scott - https://www.radicalcandor.com/

   2) Resilient Management, by Lara Hogan - https://resilient-management.com/

   3) Dare to Lead, by Brené Brown (or any of her other books; they all revolve around the importance of vulnerability, of being in the field, being authentic, etc) - https://brenebrown.com/hubs/dare-to-lead/

   4) The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni

   For experienced managers of managers / Directors, I recommend:

   1) What got you here won't get you there, Marshall Goldsmith

   2) Team of Teams, Gen. Stanley McChrystal

   3) Trillion Dollar Coach

   4) How women rise, by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

   5) and get an executive coach ASAP

   If you have any specific questions / challenges you're facing, feel free to reach out; email in my profile.

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3. lynfogeekDec 2019
   A few recommendations from me and peers in my company who highly value some of the following:

   - "Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp very insightful and easy to read.

   - "Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations" by Dr Nicole Forsgren brings a long research on how to organize teams for success.

   - "The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change" by Camille Fournier which I especially recommend for new managers.

   Lastly, and this time not tech-specific, but by far my best read of 2019: "Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell" written by Eric Schmidt & others.

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4. ericalexander0May 2024
   The book Trillion Dollar Coach ( written by Eric Schmidt and other ex-Google leadership) has a first hand account of how they went from a philosophy of few managers to more. Surprisingly the debate was settled by impromptu interviews with ICs who said they wanted more managers to help make decisions.

   Managers can bring value from multiple aspects, one being faster decision making by shifting away from decisions through consensus. What Amazon calls disagree and commit.

   If you go back even further, the no manager philosophy traces to Steve Jobs and his "It's better to be a pirate than in the Navy" quote. With the idea that pirates self organize and are a stronger team. Works great in a skunkworks department, where Jobs personally selected pirates. Falls apart at scale.

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5. absolute100Apr 2021
   The book "Trillion Dollar Coach" is on my queue to read, so I plan on using Steve Glaveski's notes to decide how to read the chapters based on needs, interests and challenges I have today. This advice is one of my favorite ways to get people to control their time and create an internal sense of urgency: "Don’t tell people what to do, tell stories and help guide them to the best decisions for them."
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6. janhaApr 2021
   My best advice would be to partner with other consultants, agencies or contractors and create a productized service that they can include in their offerings. Seek out agencies in your area and cold call them - good way to train your sales muscle without really selling anything to them.

   That's what made the difference for me. I partnered with a marketing consultant and she added me to her services every time she got a new client.

   The best book on this would be Million Dollar Consulting from Alan Weiss. Do your job well and then promote yourself to reading Trillion Dollar Coach ;))

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