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Boss Talk #13: Book Club for Bosses

Episode Summary

Ben, Ali, and Marc on the best business, management, and leadership books for bosses.

Episode Notes

Note: the recording of this episode starts a minute or two into the show.

• Ali recommends: The Hard Thing about Hard Things  by Ben Horowitz [0:18]
• Ben recommends: High Output Management by Andy Grove [4:36]
• Marc recommends: Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success by Art Kleiner [10:48]
• Best read for enterprise sales: Power Base Selling by Jim Holden, et al [13:06]
• Microsoft, Google, government contracts, and politicized workplaces [16:28]
• Marc recommends: The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman [29:32]
• Ali recommends: Radical Candor by Kim Scott [33:19]
• Ben recommends: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention  by Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings [44:19]
• Ben recommends: Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar [50:28]
• How they are approaching the return to work and remote work [53:00]

Boss Talk is the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff. Live every Tuesday 5-6pm on Clubhouse. 

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