Episode 66
Boss Talk #13: Book Club for Bosses
Ben, Ali, and Marc on the best business, management, and leadership books for bosses.
a16z Live · Ali Ghodsi, Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen
May 14, 202159m 8s
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Show Notes
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- 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]
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