Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg

Description: A book that’s all about Bill Campbell, his life, his mindset, his leadership style – all combined nicely to provide the perfect balance between a personal story, and an educational masterpiece. 

How it can help aspiring tech leaders: Sometimes just shooting out instructions and methods doesn’t work, as they lack context. The personal aspects in this book can help you understand better why his way worked, learn about the methods, and the most important thing of all – decide if this is something you might be interested in. 

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg

Description: A book that’s all about Bill Campbell, his life, his mindset, his leadership style – all combined nicely to provide the perfect balance between a personal story, and an educational masterpiece. 

How it can help aspiring tech leaders: Sometimes just shooting out instructions and methods doesn’t work, as they lack context. The personal aspects in this book can help you understand better why his way worked, learn about the methods, and the most important thing of all – decide if this is something you might be interested in. 

The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

Description: What can effectively be described as a guidebook for people who want to live their desired life, ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ does an excellent job of putting things into perspective for people, helping them find that way, while empowering them to stick to their plans. 

How it can help aspiring tech leaders: Lifestyles, ideas, urges – these all are important to development and growth, but the basis for all of them to bear fruit is to learn how to think for yourself and break free from the norm. Tech leaders are disruptors, after all. 


The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

Description: What can effectively be described as a guidebook for people who want to live their desired life, ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ does an excellent job of putting things into perspective for people, helping them find that way, while empowering them to stick to their plans. 

How it can help aspiring tech leaders: Lifestyles, ideas, urges – these all are important to development and growth, but the basis for all of them to bear fruit is to learn how to think for yourself and break free from the norm. Tech leaders are disruptors, after all. 

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

Description: Science is behind all the good moves leaders do, but the art of it is the connective tissue that brings it all to life, giving it meaning and purpose. In this book, you have an end-to-end guide on how you need to approach and execute various tasks – from start to completion.

How it can help aspiring tech leaders: Grand ideas are the backbone of anything meaningful that happens in the world, but turning that idea into something tangible and moving? This book contains some great ideas on how you can do it.


The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

Description: Science is behind all the good moves leaders do, but the art of it is the connective tissue that brings it all to life, giving it meaning and purpose. In this book, you have an end-to-end guide on how you need to approach and execute various tasks – from start to completion.

How it can help aspiring tech leaders: Grand ideas are the backbone of anything meaningful that happens in the world, but turning that idea into something tangible and moving? This book contains some great ideas on how you can do it.


Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell, and David Silverman

Description: A bit of an unorthodox pick, but a book that’s much more about leadership than it is about military action and intricacies that revolve around it. Stanley McChrystal’s approach is one that defines the ills of today’s organizations – resistant to change, but badly in need of restructuring and reshaping in order to grow.

How it can help aspiring tech leaders: The real change must always come from the top – and the story in this book is all about that, supporting the old adage – be the change that you want to see around you.

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Takeaway

When talking about difficult truths and difficult decisions, one must remember that the strain is all about finding the right circumstances and environments to execute and deliver them, rather than worry about the outfall of it all. 

Stay tuned for part 4! 


TC Gill


People Development
Coach and Strategist