What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them – yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In this follow-up to the bestselling business classic The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz turns his attention to a question crucial to every How do you create and sustain the culture you want? This book is a journey through cultures ancient to modern, spotlighting models of leadership and culture-building from the samurai to prison gangs. Along the way, it answers fundamental Who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Can we be trusted? Because who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in a 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 will help you do the things needed to become the kind of leader you want to be – and others want to follow.

Ben Horowitz

HarperCollins GB

Ben Franklin And His Notebooks

Susan Avishai

McGraw-Hill School Division

Business & Money

Business Culture

HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing

[Read by Kevin Kenerly] Many people talk about how great it is to start a business, but very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in. This book is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.

The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Management & Leadership

HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio

With InstaRead Summaries, you can get the essence of a book in 30 minutes or less. We read every chapter and summarize it in one or two paragraphs so you can get the information contained in the book at a faster rate.   This is an InstaRead Summary of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz.  Below is a preview of the earlier sections of the summary:   Introduction  Ben explains that every time he reads a self-help or management book, he thinks about the fact that it didn’t really address the hard things like laying people off or having good people start demanding unreasonable things. The problem with self-help books is that they try to provide a recipe for dealing with difficult, dynamic situations. Challenging situations can not be solved with a formula. Instead of using a formula in this book, the author presents his story as he progressed from an entrepreneur to CEO to venture capitalist. He shares some of the lessons he has learned along the way. He explains that although circumstances may differ, patterns and lessons resonate with each experience. For the last several years, he has shared lessons learned on his popular blog. Many people have emailed him to ask about the stories behind the lessons. Ben shares that he has been inspired along the way by many family members, friends, and advisers who have helped him. Hip-hop/rap music has also inspired him because these artists aspire to be both great and successful. He also admires that rappers see themselves as entrepreneurs.

Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things

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The Hard Thing about Hard Things (Chinese Version) / Chuang Ye Wei Jian

The Hard Thing about Hard Things (Chinese Version) / Chuang Ye Wei Jian

CITIC Publishing House

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: The Hard Thing About Hard Things [Hardcover], What You Do Is Who You Are [Hardcover], High Output Management 3 Books Collection Set: The Hard Thing About Hard Things [Hardcover]: Straight talk and advice on building and running a startup from Ben Horowitz, one of Silicon Valleys most respected voices. What You Do Is Who You Are [Hardcover]: The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them - yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In this follow-up to the bestselling business classic The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation. High Output Management: The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be summed up in a single word: managing. Born of Grove's experiences at one of America's leading technology companies, High Output Management is equally appropriate for sales managers, accountants, consultants, and teachers, as well as CEOs and startup founders.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things [Hardcover], What You Do Is Who You Are [Hardcover], High Output Management 3 Books Collection Set

Andrew S. Grove

Finance

HarperCollins USA/William Collins/Vintage Books

The Hard Thing About Hard Things [Hardcover] By Ben Horowitz, The Founders By Jimmy Soni 2 Books Collection Set

Jimmy Soni

Harper Business/Atlantic Books Ltd

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