The Full Stack Leader

Summary: leaders lead.

Succinct and story-filled primer on being a superb business executive, boss, and peer.

Frame is the leadership team at Google sharing management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell (also coach to CEOs as Apple and Intuit).

Two things I found most interesting in this book:

1. Initially Eric’s pride got in the way when he was “told to get a coach.” Maybe because he felt he didn’t want suggestions from outside the team.
2. The coach, Bill Campbell, coaches the team as a community rather than thinking of each relationship as a 1-1, private exercise.

How might teams encourage an outside help without sacrificing pride and their own contributions?

I also loved the product leadership philosophy around giving people courage to solve issues instead of telling them exactly what to do.

Product Managers don’t tell engineers what features to build—instead, they describe the customer problem and let them solve it.

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

• Authors: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
• Published January 2019
• 3.99 stars on Goodreads