5 Leadership Lessons From Trillion Dollar Coach Bill Campbell
Jan 26, 2021
Here are 5 takeaways from the book Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon’s Valley Bill Campbell to apply to your career.
Bill Campbell coached Steve Jobs, Google key executives such as Eric Schmidt and current CEO Sundar Pichai, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon to name a few.
- Many of the leadership skills can be delegated, but not coaching.
- Your title makes you a manager, your people make you a leader.
- Write five topics on a whiteboard to help facilitate 1:1 conversations.
- Framework for 1:1s includes performance on job requirements, relationship with peer groups, management/leadership, and innovation (best practices)
- The purpose of a company is to bring a product vision to life. All the other components are in service to product.
Which one of these takeaways do you struggle with? What action can you take towards it?
