Trillion Dollar Coach:
The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
亿万教练:硅谷比尔·坎贝尔的领导手册
By Alan Eagle, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg (2019)
This amazing book on management explains leadership well. It is about the leadership strategy of a great man, Bill Campbell, and how he helped everyone around him as a coach, mentor, and friend. It makes you realize that leading is more a job for the heart than for the brain. It's about enabling individuals, cohesiveness, and compassion. The book highlights the need for compassion in the workplace, and describes how this can build great teams. It is a must-read for any leader, manager, and pacesetter.
This book is basically a compilation of interviews with people whom Bill has coached, and includes the authors’ personal interactions with him. The book talks about the tech companies of Silicon Valley and the impact Bill had on many of their leaders.
Leaders like Bill Campbell are rare, and the reader gets a glimpse into how authentic leaders should behave, based on a variety of perspectives. Bill’s focus was on his team and accomplishing the team’s mission. The final lines of the book describe this best, saying “the world faces many challenges, and they can only be solved by teams. Those teams need coaches.” This book is recommended for leaders at any stage, especially those who are interested in learning about coaching and the personal and organizational benefits that having great coaches can achieve.