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

by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle

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The authors, all Google veterans, distill the coaching philosophy of Bill Campbell - the former football coach who mentored Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, and Jeff Bezos - based on interviews with 80 people who knew him. They argue that the best operational leaders in tech ran on trust, psychological safety, and team-first decision-making, and that Campbell's people-centric coaching explains much of the trillion dollars in market value he helped create.

Published:: 2019
Pages:: 240

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In this collection, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell references 5 other books.

It draws on Steve Jobs, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and High Output Management.

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Draws directly on Isaacson's Steve Jobs for Campbell's relationship with Jobs during Apple's turnaround, where Campbell served on Apple's board and coached Jobs on people decisions

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Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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Cross-references Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things on CEO coaching and tough people calls, since Campbell coached Horowitz and many a16z-backed founders

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

by Ben Horowitz

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Builds on Grove's High Output Management philosophy (Grove was one of Campbell's mentors at Intel) for the book's treatment of one-on-ones, staff meetings, and operational rhythm

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High Output Management

by Andrew Grove

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Echoes Collins's Built to Last on building enduring companies through leadership succession, using Campbell's coaching of multiple generations of Google leaders as a case study

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Built to Last

by Jim Collins

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Connects to Doerr's Measure What Matters on OKRs, noting that Campbell coached Doerr and helped install and refine OKR discipline at Google

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Measure What Matters

by John Doerr

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The Innovator's Dilemma

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