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  • Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
  • Written by: David M. Rubenstein
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  • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)

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The New York Times best seller

Number one Wall Street Journal best seller

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.

©2020 David M. Rubenstein. Interviews in this book originally appeared on The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations. Used by permission of Bloomberg News. The introduction to the interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci was originally published in USA Today on March 22, 2020. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Absolutely incredible title! Business interviews on roids!

I can’t believe it took me so long to find this title. This is an incredible compilation of the best business interviews. Enjoyed every minute!

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The best access to the greateat minds in the world

love it and highly recommend to everyone. How the greatest people got to where they are now.

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Subjects were interesting, interviewer could improve

First, highly recommend this book by audible to hear the interviews live. It was very interesting to hear from this wide variety of leaders in their respective fields. The one thing that distracted from this was the author’s interviewing style. He was constantly interrupting his subjects, dismissive of their answers or seemed like he was just waiting for them to finish so he could ask his next question without caring what they were saying. Finally, he would ask questions and then offer answers versus waiting to hear what they actually has to say. This was a constant frustration throughout this book, but that aside it was a fascinating listen, and would recommend.

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Great book

David seems to create an atmosphere that allows the candidate to be at ease.

As a result David truly gets to heart of their individual leadership and what drives them.

Truly interesting and eye opening.

Loved to see this develop into a series of books.

Keep up great work.


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No depth

Although it's interesting to hear about a few leaders, especially ones that I was not too familiar with, a lot of these interviews are quite shallow. Rubenstein doesn't press interesting points and a lot of his follow up questions are dull and lifeless. Much of the interviews are taken up with chronological details that can easily be looked up on Wikipedia. The most glaring issue, though, is that only a small portion of each conversation even concerns itself with leadership. A misleading book, haphazardly put together to take advantage of raw interview material, which they assembled together into this "ok" package.

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