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Trillion Dollar Coach
- The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.
Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt. In addition, this business genius mentored dozens of other important leaders on both coasts, from entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to educators to football players, leaving behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.
Leaders at Google for more than a decade, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle experienced firsthand how the man fondly known as Coach Bill built trusting relationships, fostered personal growth - even in those at the pinnacle of their careers - inspired courage, and identified and resolved simmering tensions that inevitably arise in fast-moving environments. To honor their mentor and inspire and teach future generations, they have codified his wisdom in this essential guide.
Based on interviews with more than 80 people who knew and loved Bill Campbell, Trillion Dollar Coach explains the Coach’s principles and illustrates them with stories from the many great people and companies with which he worked. The result is a blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create higher performing and faster moving cultures, teams, and companies.
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- FB
- 2019-05-23
Disappointing
Essentially, a long eulogy for a respected corporate coach. My expectations were not met. Thanks
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- zerto
- 2020-10-13
Good concepts, but not the most captivating
would rate 7/10 and probably wouldn't recommend. Instead I would read How to Win Friends and Influence People again and again and learn the same principles but with better applications. I'm sure Bill was a great coach, but unfortunately I don't think his story was told that well.
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- Ly & Dan
- 2019-08-23
Phenomenal book about Leadership
One of the best books I’ve ever read about leadership. Bill is a total legend!
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- Shabnam sharif
- 2023-06-26
truly inspiring
amazing book for those seeking mentors and coach to level up their business to the next level
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- Chloe Romero
- 2023-06-15
Truly inspiring
Bill Campbell was incredibly progressive. As an Agile Leader, most of the subjects brought up in the book seem pretty obvious! But then I quickly remember that most top executives still don't value many of these subjects. I'm now on a mission to have all the top leaders I work with to give this book a read/listen. 10/10
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- Jonathan Tellier
- 2023-04-05
Ça m’a rejoint personnellement
Je ne savais pas trop à quoi m’attendre de ce livre. Mais ça m’a rejoint profondément. J’ai fait beaucoup de sport d’équipe dans ma vie et j’ai toujours trouvé que plusieurs enseignement devrait être adhéré par le monde des affaires
Bill Campbell est l’incarnation de cette pensée. Ce concept de coach est applicable à tous les niveaux, pas juste aux billiardaires
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- Matt
- 2023-04-05
Exceptionally great!
The story of the person behind many of the great silicon valley leaders that you've likely never heard of (because he wanted it that way).
The common thread of his success, and the success of all of the incredible leaders he helped: focus on the people, care about them, and celebrate/support them.
The key insight I took from this: it doesn't matter how successful or experienced you are (eg. Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Larry page, Marisa Mayer, Sheryl Sandburg, etc), having a coach/mentor by your side to see things from an outside perspective and talk things through with you is invaluable.
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- Yujing Liu
- 2023-01-18
useful tips for managers big and small
most of the content is aimed towards big executives such as CEOs. The story about Bill who had passed away when the book was made was 100% great words about him. Some tips such as open the team meeting by trip plans are useful for small managers too. Reading is pleasant.
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- Vincent
- 2022-01-20
Good book
Not that much insight , it is more of a story on bill Campbell life, interesting but not life changing.
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- Vishal & Weiting
- 2021-07-26
Excellent Listen, Wish there were more diversity
I feel extremely inspired after listening to the Trillion Dollar Coach. Bill's magic is like no other.
Only feedback: It sounds like Bill had huge impacts on male (mostly white) mentees. I wish there were more female voices in the book. There were sprinkles for sure, I felt there wasn't enough.
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- intangiblereverie
- 2019-04-17
This is a eulogy, not a "playbook."
TL/DR: Apply good football coaching principles to the business world = help silicon valley companies make trillions.
If you're looking for leadership & growth insights, you'll get what you're looking for more densely & expediently from the likes of Peter Drucker or John Maxwell.
This book is ultimately a massive name-check storytelling session for silicon valley power players to eulogize their beloved coach. The best thing it accomplishes is animating the story of an inspirational, colorful leader, and perhaps show those who aren't in the know that coaching is necessary for growth. While these are both valuable things, they hardly amount to a "playbook" as the title suggests.
What really gets me, though, is the narrator. He does this awful thing where he feigns the accents of contributors to this book when he's reading their passages. Is it really necessary for this white guy to mock an Indian accent? These passages are written in English, same as the rest who aren't ESL speakers.
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- Jason Lehmbeck
- 2019-04-25
Great regarding the Coach’s life; Ok on how-to
This was a great book to learn about Bill Campbell but was just ok on the how-to aspects of being a great coach
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-04-19
Bill was an amazing coach. Book was very redundant
The Hard Things about Hard Things covers most of the same things and goes into more detail about specific topics, but this book is good if you're looking for more anecdotal evidence of how great a guy Bill Campbell was.
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- Ubaidu
- 2019-05-15
I didn't learn much from this book
I bought this book with high expectations as I have read the authors' previous book on "How Google works"
What I learned from this book can be put in two lines. Bill Campbell was a great coach. And it is good to have a coach for anybody especially for the top level executives of a company.
I would say it could have been compressed in to an online article, rather than a book of its own. I have no idea how this book is getting so many 5 stars.
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- Rohit Pujari
- 2019-05-08
Don’t bother, there are better books on leadership and coaching
This book is full of one sided anecdotes and fluffy stories. Reads more like a eulogy...
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- Mathew
- 2020-01-11
Disappointed. This was a eulogy...lacking substance
This book would have been so much better had the author actually simply spent one chapter discussing the bugs and bolts of HOW someone else could replicate Bill’s impact. I felt like I was working on a 1000 piece puzzle that was missing half the key pieces to finish the puzzle.
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- D_C
- 2019-04-28
Transform your business through caring
Loved it! Care for your team and people and see your business transform. Listen now!
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- Kakarot
- 2020-03-01
A eulogy
Seems like the book was written out of respect to losing someone so close to those startups. Not really a "leadership playbook"
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- 2020-02-27
Book is a drag, should have been 2 sentences
The book can be summarized in 2 sentence: Coaches show you your blindspots and sour-spots and they care about your success. They want you to realize your potential and this is how mentors and managers should be.
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- EA
- 2019-04-25
A Heart-centered Counterpoint
Everything in this book is actionable - it’s just different than most business or leadership books because Bill Campbell was different than most business people. The point to bring the heart, sincere relationship, “soft” skills, love, and family into the work place is well communicated and timely. It was difficult to distill the traits of such a enigmatic personality into a “playbook” I am sure but they did a good job.
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- Fabio P.
- 2022-12-15
Easy to listen
I am not a native English speaker and this book is easy to listen. Concept are well structured and interesting to discover
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- morgane
- 2019-06-23
A great topic but a miss in the conception
The topic was incredibly good but the way they made it, with too much details and not enough clarity missed the quality the book could have been. A great work in term of research and lacking a clear plan in the development.
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