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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 executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.
In What You Do Is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz, bestselling author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation: how do you create and sustain the culture you want?
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, an American ex-con who created the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison 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 organisation: who are we?
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Collins
- Publication dateOctober 31, 2019
- Dimensions6.26 x 1.1 x 9.45 inches
- ISBN-100008356114
- ISBN-13978-0008356118
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- Publisher : William Collins (October 31, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0008356114
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008356118
- Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.26 x 1.1 x 9.45 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #777,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,159 in Workplace Culture (Books)
- #2,561 in Motivational Management & Leadership
- #6,134 in Leadership & Motivation
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About the author
Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading technology companies. The firm's investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously, he was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor in a blog that is read by nearly 10 million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Fortune, the Economist, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. Horowitz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Felicia.
Follow him on Twitter @bhorowitz and his blog, www.bhorowitz.com.
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It is sometimes dangerous to retrospectively fit a story to the past to make it seem plausible. Narrative fallacy is the technical term for it. Ben does use stories to illustrates principles, and whether it is accurate or not is not really the point. It is refreshing to read non-conventional stories to illustrate culture, and I suspect the stories will also stand the test of time better (unlike Good to Great, where the examples used were undone by the companies themselves post the book).
Finally, I loved the (sometimes profane) rap lyrics at the start of every chapter. I could not always understand what the relevance was, but that does not really matter.
The basic premise is that actions are louder than words. The real life and often personal examples Horowitz uses bear out this premise. What makes the book unique and thus compelling is the use of not typical corporate culture re-hashes. There are a few Apple and Amazon examples, but much of the book reflects on leading culture accomplishments such as the Haitian revolution, a prison gang, Genghis Khan and the Samurai code.
A solid business read for its unique perspective, historical lessons and practical counsel. Check it out.
But I would say that this book trumps the others, because a culture is what makes an organization tick even if the leaders are not there. As leaders are the stewards and gardeners of the organization culture, this makes this book even more important than the others above.
Lots of good stuff, just have to mine it out from all the filler
Actual scenarios the author experienced were far more interesting then the historical context.
I also found it odd that the emulated cultures were all quite violent and bereft of compassion. Even the member of the staff referenced was quite brutal to subordinates.
In his own words, he talked primarily of "wartime [leaders] " . Not the alternative. But that is mostly beside the point. It was just distracting.
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While Hard Thing About Hard Things was good, but nothing exceptional, this book is unique and complets Collins books such as Build to Last and Good to Great. Overall an outstanding work.
For any leaders that doesn’t yet recognise that their behaviours are more than half of the success in their own companies and teams, it is an essential read.
Em What You Do Is Who You Are, Ben demonstra que domina o assunto de Culturas Corporativas como poucos e inclusive ilustra o tema como vários exemplos históricos, o que agregou muito a narrativa.
Ao destrinchar como as maiores empresas do mundo adotaram ou deveriam ter adotado estratégias em cultura corporativa, Horowitz escreveu mais um livro que será uma bíblia para amantes de empreendedorismo e startups.