Read books and read good books.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Redwoods” (ID: Sequoiacap), the author Hong Shan. The original title “Be good at learning is the commonality of outstanding leaders, “Yale Tour Professor” recommended book
If life really has a “shortcut” to success, it must be good to read and read a good book.
In the week ending in September, nearly 30 founders and executives from Sequoia China’s member companies went to Yale University to complete the Yale-Sequoia Leadership Center and the Yale University Study Tour program.
For these new “founders/executive students”, Yale University professors have given them a good book and recommended books in their fields. Management books allow us to enhance leadership potential; economic books let us see the meaning of creativity; art books let us learn human knowledge and wisdom… share with readers of Sequoia .
What Life at the World’s Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future
Richard Davies/ 着
Farrar, Straus and Giroux January 2020
Content introduction
To predict the future, we must look at extreme situations. Economist Richard Davies brings us closer to the edge of the modern economy in this book. From the world’s first digital country to Japan’s most populous county, from prisons in rural Louisiana, prisoners use prepaid cash cards to buy drugs to the poorest cities on the planet, where residents buy clean water in plastic bags. . These economic operations in the “extreme situation” enable us to see the resilience of human existence and the future of humanity, revealing the most pressing economic problems of today.
Recommended person
Robert Shiller, professor of Stirling Economics at Yale School of Management, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics
Quantum Leadership
New Consciousness in Business
Frederick Chavalit Tsao, Chris Laszlo/ with
Stanford Business Books July 2019
Content introduction
In this book, a large amount of factual research reveals the most advantageous means of tapping the leadership potential. The authors believe that some current leadership methods are not able to have a positive impact on business operations, employees and customers are diverse and changeable, and today’s entrepreneurs need to be more creative and collaborative.
The book provides us with how to train leadership, how to use leadership to create wealth, and to foster entrepreneurs to maximize their potential by fostering deeper leadership. This book will allow us to improve efficiency and achieve greater returns in our work.
Recommended reason
This book has just been published, and it shows us how to train a person’s awareness to inspire leadership potential, create business wealth, and better serve society. This concept of consciously improving leadership is ideal for leaders in the education and social services industries.
——David Tate
Yellow School of Management Lecturer, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
The Challenge Culture
Why The Most Successful Organizations Run On Pushback
Nigel Travis/ at
PublicAffairs September 2018
Content introduction
We live in an era of rapid change, and success and failure can happen in an instant. In order to cope with change, we should maintain a spirit of challenge and actively fight back. Nigel Travis has 40 years of experience in dealing with the crisis. He believes that the best way to make a company successful is to let it take the challenge. No matter where you are, every employee must have the ability to question the status quo and challenge the status quo.
Nigel Travis uses her career as an example to tell us how to respond positively when a crisis strikes, how to constantly subvert the status quo in daily work, how to build a mindset that meets challenges, and how to use leadership. Let the company succeed.
Recommended reason
This book tells us that it is very important to constantly challenge the status quo. The challenged people will have better innovation and more acute perception.
——Bernard Banks
Brigadier General of the United States (retired)
Container changes the world
Marc Levinson / with
Mechanical Industry Press January 2014
Content introduction
In April 1956, a modified tanker transported 58 containers from Newark to Houston, and container shipping has since grown into a huge industry. This book comes from the history of the invention of the container, will look like one