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How to Lead

Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

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How to Lead

By: David M. Rubenstein
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The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers.

For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein—author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, and host of The David Rubenstein Show—has spoken with the world’s highest performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. How to Lead distills these revealing conversations into an indispensable leadership guidebook.

Gain advice and wisdom from CEOs, presidents, founders, and master performers from the worlds of finance (Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Christine Lagarde, Ken Griffin), tech (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook), entertainment (Oprah Winfrey, Lorne Michaels, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma), sports (Jack Nicklaus, Adam Silver, Coach K, Phil Knight), government (President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nancy Pelosi), and many others.

-Jeff Bezos harnesses the power of wandering, discovering that his best decisions have been made with heart and intuition, rather than analysis.
-Richard Branson never goes into a venture looking to make a profit. He aims to make the best in field.
-Phil Knight views Nike as a marketing company whose product is its most important marketing tool.
-Marillyn Hewson, who grew up in a fatherless home with four siblings in Kansas, quickly learned the importance of self-reliance and the value of a dollar.

How to Lead shares the extraordinary stories of these pioneering agents of change. Discover how each luminary got started and how they handle decision making, failure, innovation, change, and crisis. Learn from their decades of experience as pioneers in their field. No two leaders are the same.
Career Success Leadership Management Management & Leadership Business Inspiring Thought-Provoking
Diverse Leadership Perspectives • Inspiring Personal Stories • Insightful Interviews • Inclusive Representation

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Love it. youbwillntoo. Take you time to hear it they. Towards the end I was wanting at the be done. Interviewer was spot on. He know what to do and how to do it.

Great idea for a book

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I learned so much and feel inspired by the thoughtful, candid interviews. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent

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What makes this so useful and powerful is the fact that nobody is interpreting their stories for us.

David asks the right questions and we get to hear their honest takes and whatever resonates with us resonates with us.

Thank you David for your work in making the journeys of so many accessible.

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A great book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found this book to be highly intelligent and highly relatable. I found great relation with the author and I further highly recommend this book.

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