Real Leaders Don't Follow
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- Synopsis
- Leaders Lead. Followers Follow. You Can't Do Both.Acknowledging the great irony that most of today's inspiring entrepreneurs are following the crowd instead of doing what innovative leaders like Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk did to become successful, Silicon Valley management consultant Steve Tobak delivers some truth:Nobody ever made it big by doing what everyone else is doing.Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, Tobak provides a unique perspective on today's technology revolution, exposes popular myths that masquerade as common wisdom and shows you what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and an exceptional business leaders in today's highly competitive world.e time everyone spends chasing utopia in the virtual world, the less chance they have of making a difference and becoming successful in the real world.Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and VCs, Silicon Valley management consultant and former high-tech senior executive Steve Tobak shows readers exactly what it takes to become successful entrepreneurs and exceptional business leaders in today's highly competitive world. Today's and tomorrow's entrepreneurs are first given an eye-opening perspective on today's cultural revolution while explaining the challenges and opportunities our socially connected online world represents. Part two breaks down popular myths and fads while showing up-and-comers how to create a strong foundation for advancing their careers. The third part provides critical lessons in starting, building, running, and growing a successful, differentiated business in a highly competitive global market. Part four shows managers and executives of high-growth companies how to develop into strong, effective, high-performance leaders.Includes case studies, stories, and lessons of hundreds of accomplished and exceptional business leaders including:Steve Jobs/Apple, Masayoshi Son/Softbank, Jack Ma/Alibaba, Ivan Seidenberg/Verizon, Travis Kalanick/Uber, Matt Maloney/Mike Evans/GrubHub, Bill Gates/Paul Allen/Steve Ballmer/Microsoft, Andy Grove/Intel, Larry Ellison/Oracle, Steve Jurvetson/Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook, Fred Smith/FedEx, Marissa Mayer/Yahoo, Evan Spiegel/Snapchat, Elon Musk/Tesla/SpaceX, Larry Page/Sergey Brin/Eric Schmidt/Google, Matt Mullenweb/WordPress, Mike Moritz/Sequoia Capital, Reid Hoffman/LinkedIn, Peter Thiel/PayPal, Evan William/Twitter, Richard Branson/Virgin, Scott Cook/Intuit, Steve Case/AOL, Jim McNerney/Boeing, Frank Blake/Home Depot, Meg Whitman/H-P/eBay, Howard Schultz/Starbucks, Lloyd Blankfein/Goldman Sachs, Bob Pittman/AOL/Clear Channel/iHeartMedia, Jan Koum/WhatsApp; plus, Trader Joe's, CNET, Tivo, Qualcomm, Skype, Airbnb, Texas Instruments, NEC, GE, Procter & Gamble, McKinsey, IBM, BlackBerry. Others cited include:Howard Hughes, Warren Bennis, Andy Bechtolsheim (serial entrepreneur, Sun cofounder and first investor in Google), Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Mike Judge, Ayn Rand, Jaron Lanier, Henry David Thoreau, Peter Drucker, Niccolo Machiavelli, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Cuban, Donald Trump, Arianna Huffington, Albert Einstein.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781613083208
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781599185750
- Publisher:
- Entrepreneur Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/19/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Entrepreneur Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Self-Help, Business and Finance
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- N/A
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- This is a copyrighted book.