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What You Do Is Who You Are

How to Create Your Business Culture

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What You Do Is Who You Are

By: Ben Horowitz
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
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Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.

The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them – yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In this follow-up to the bestselling business classic The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation: How do you create and sustain the culture you want?

This book is a journey through cultures ancient to modern, spotlighting models of leadership and culture-building from the samurai to prison gangs. Along the way, it answers fundamental questions: Who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Can we be trusted?

Because who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in a company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book will help you do the things needed to become the kind of leader you want to be – and others want to follow.

©2019 Ben Horowitz (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Business Ethics Leadership Social Psychology & Interactions Workplace Culture Business Mongol Empire
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Great book

In time’s, the reader might have been slower or articulate, especially on the beginning. Otherwise - great book

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Excellent

Magnificent read on corporate culture! Ben Horowitz presents excellent points and brings great examples! A must read IMO for every leader!

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One of those books you'll always refer to

Loved the storytelling with historical examples. Excellent performance makes the book an easy read to get through and the opposite or boring

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Useful and thought provoking

I found this book to be useful at reminding, guiding and provoking thinking about what it takes to put a successful organisation culture in place.
It did seem a bit patchy though, so doesn’t feel like it has given a comprehensive actionable framework, but more like it just pointed out a few aspects which have been particularly important or effective in other organisations or groups.

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A great business book

one of the few business books that is down to earth, clear, concise & that anyone from a student to a CEO can learn from. The author keeps it real, the narrator is excellent.
This is a great book

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Practical and Philosophical at the same time

No bullshit book about what is culture and how to shape it. with examples from L'Overture,Samurais and Genghis Khan.

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Insightful content performed with style

An interesting set of perspectives with well-selected examples from history to help internalise the messages. The narration was alsp engaging and excellent.

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Great Insights and Exciting Examples

I read a lot of business books, and this was different. The insights for the business I run were great, but the biggest difference was the examples. The author pulled from some amazing history that I wasn't previously well aware of.

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Very Ben

Really thoughtful viewpoint on culture, its importance and how to build a strong one. Thank you Ben. You mofo.

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Narrator ruined this book

Hi sounds like he is reading Shakespeare's Hamlet. Too much drama in the voice. Really puts off.

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