Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Written by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
Narrated by Dan Woren
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About this audiobook
The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.
Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt. In addition, this business genius mentored dozens of other important leaders on both coasts, from entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to educators to football players, leaving behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.
Leaders at Google for over a decade, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle experienced firsthand how the man fondly known as Coach Bill built trusting relationships, fostered personal growth—even in those at the pinnacle of their careers—inspired courage, and identified and resolved simmering tensions that inevitably arise in fast-moving environments. To honor their mentor and inspire and teach future generations, they have codified his wisdom in this essential guide.
Based on interviews with over eighty people who knew and loved Bill Campbell, Trillion Dollar Coach explains the Coach’s principles and illustrates them with stories from the many great people and companies with which he worked. The result is a blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create higher performing and faster moving cultures, teams, and companies.
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Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt served as Google CEO and chairman from 2001 until 2011, Google executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, and Alphabet executive chairman from 2015 to 2018.
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Reviews for Trillion Dollar Coach
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book provides a good summary about what to consider as a leader and the value of having a coach. I recommend this book for new managers, it offers some perspective.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Practical tips from a glimpse behind the curtain into the values of a true coach to the leaders of business.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book is a trillion dollar let down - the book doesn't measure up to the man, the legend, the coach. I'd have loved to channel Bill Campbell's colorful language in this review, but out of respect to him and the author's pedigree and hard work, I refrain. There are some great anecdotes, examples, and situations in this book but the codification of the principles, if any, are really poor. I had very high expectations from this book and came away disappointed.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I had no idea who Bill Campbell was before reading this book. It's testament to the brilliance of this book that at the end of it, I thought to myself "wow, I wish I were Bill's friend. He sounds like an absolutely stellar, phenomenal human being."
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Worth your time, but there are more concise BC resources available.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I feel like many people this book was too short but so good! Playing football for most my life this book did a great job of explaining how Bill utilized the concept of team building and showing compassion from football and applying that to the tech industry. Highly recommend reading this book!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Teach you how to be a Leader- and Coach in all the extensión of the word
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is awesome! A book that all leaders and aspiring leaders must have
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To be honest, I consider that this book is one of the best ones that I have ever read in my entire life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a human being! Wow. Highly recommend. Well written and authentic.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5After a slow opening, the book is great. Many stories showing how we can use coaching in organizational environments and improve our communication. There are a few tips, but they are well backed up by both stories and even some research. Great book for me, I’m very happy that it was one of the first books about coaching for me
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's a very inspiring book. Although this guy has obviously lived an oxtraordinary life and it's hard to copy his behavior it's certainly a nice horizon to aim for
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is one of the most boring books I have listened to but I am so glad I did not put it down. In fact, I could not do that because it contains life long exceptional experiences that if you think about it critically, are the foundations of business growth as we know it today in America. Bill will forever be remembered and has left a huge print on the sands of time.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5It doesn't seem realistic. "People now clap using the BCC - Bill Campbell Clap". Attributes to Bill almost all good that ever happened on the tech industry.
If there was another chapter would be probably how Bill helped God develop the universe.
This book is mostly about praises and has very little useful information. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful insights. Hell of a character. And easy to read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Plenty to be learned from Bill Campbell’s life. Great read for sure.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not practical, basically praising for bill the entire book without really what he did
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great work, very impress, so much amazing content to absorbe and put into practice
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thank you for such an amazing book. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it and knowing more about the amazing life of Bill Campbell is very inspiring and motivating.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A standard Silicon Valley leadership book. More anecdotal than educational.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Give new perspective of how love and compassion mater's in work environment.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A book about an amazing human being from whom there is so much to learn!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great principles to remember when working with tour team, stakeholders, and anyone really. A good balance of how to be a good coach and why being a bit more open and caring can go a long way in making connections and building trust.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book and great stories. It provides some great human aspects of some of the greatest tech CEOs and some amazing management lessons
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was amazing to see all the lives he touched
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book covers general important points about coaching but only loving، caring، honesty and bear hugs cannot be the unique features of a billion dollar coach. It's because bill Campbell himself did not personally share his own thoughts to this book.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Interesting book but not much to it. It was great to know more about bill but that was all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5amazing material, completely stunning applicable to any organization and team
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is probably the best managing/ coaching/ passing books I’ve ever read. I’m reading this Again on paperback with a highlighter!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The book was too short:). Didn’t want it to end. Overall an enjoyable read with a lot of leadership lessons