Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle · 2019
Trillion Dollar Coach (2019) is a book by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle on Coaching & mentorship. Google's leaders reconstruct the leadership playbook of Bill Campbell, the football-coach-turned-CEO who mentored Jobs, Page, and Bezos, arguing that in a knowledge economy, management IS coaching.
The secret operating manual of the football coach who quietly mentored Silicon Valley's most powerful leaders, and proved that caring hard is a management skill.
Three of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Trillion Dollar Coach pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.
- Your title makes you a manager; your people make you a leader, authority is earned through trust, not conferred by an org chart.
- Structure every 1:1 with Five Words on a Whiteboard: you and your report each list top topics, then merge, covering performance, peers, and innovation.
- Run the Throne Behind the Round Table: drive an inclusive decision process, speak LAST, and break ties only when the team truly can't.
The other 4 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 8 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- The Caddie and the CEO
- From the Gridiron to the Boardroom
- Your Title Makes You a Manager, Your People Make You a Leader
- Build an Envelope of Trust
- Team First: Work the Team, Then the Problem
- The Power of Love
- Coaching Ego Out of the Decision
- The Yardstick
Finish Trillion Dollar Coach tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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