Trillion Dollar Coach

Great regarding the Coach’s life; Ok on how-to

This was a great book to learn about Bill Campbell but was just ok on the how-to aspects of being a great coach

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This is a eulogy, not a "playbook."

TL/DR: Apply good football coaching principles to the business world = help silicon valley companies make trillions.

If you're looking for leadership & growth insights, you'll get what you're looking for more densely & expediently from the likes of Peter Drucker or John Maxwell.

This book is ultimately a massive name-check storytelling session for silicon valley power players to eulogize their beloved coach. The best thing it accomplishes is animating the story of an inspirational, colorful leader, and perhaps show those who aren't in the know that coaching is necessary for growth. While these are both valuable things, they hardly amount to a "playbook" as the title suggests.

What really gets me, though, is the narrator. He does this awful thing where he feigns the accents of contributors to this book when he's reading their passages. Is it really necessary for this white guy to mock an Indian accent? These passages are written in English, same as the rest who aren't ESL speakers.

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Bill was an amazing coach. Book was very redundant

The Hard Things about Hard Things covers most of the same things and goes into more detail about specific topics, but this book is good if you're looking for more anecdotal evidence of how great a guy Bill Campbell was.

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I didn't learn much from this book

I bought this book with high expectations as I have read the authors' previous book on "How Google works"

What I learned from this book can be put in two lines. Bill Campbell was a great coach. And it is good to have a coach for anybody especially for the top level executives of a company.

I would say it could have been compressed in to an online article, rather than a book of its own. I have no idea how this book is getting so many 5 stars.

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Don’t bother, there are better books on leadership and coaching

This book is full of one sided anecdotes and fluffy stories. Reads more like a eulogy...

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Transform your business through caring

Loved it! Care for your team and people and see your business transform. Listen now!

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Must Read for leaders

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle are a great team who write about the key insights of Bill Campbell. I wish that we had more leaders like Bill Campbell who had the integrity to lead by example.

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A Heart-centered Counterpoint

Everything in this book is actionable - it’s just different than most business or leadership books because Bill Campbell was different than most business people. The point to bring the heart, sincere relationship, “soft” skills, love, and family into the work place is well communicated and timely. It was difficult to distill the traits of such a enigmatic personality into a “playbook” I am sure but they did a good job.

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To find a good coach or to become one! Must Read.

Bill Campbell, as the opening of the book suggests, is a well-kept secret of Silicon Valley. I had never heard of him and would probably never have known to look for him, because I didn't think the executives needed someone like Bill. I always thought a career coach or an executive coach was needed by people who had no previous experience in doing something that they wanted to do next in their career. This book has changed my understanding of what makes a leader successful. I think more than a tribute to Bill Campbell, it is a Case Study of what constitutes a good coach and how can professionals learn to find a coach for themselves as well learn to coach their coachees in a meaningful way. I am just a little dissatisfied about one aspect of the philosophy Bill practiced, which was how generously he spent money and I wonder if he would have been as effective, if he needed to make the money like so many other coaches have to. The reason I am dissatisfied is not because I feel Bill was somehow advantaged, but because I would have liked to know how he brought himself to a position of such advantage. Loved the book and I have a feeling, would have loved the person too.

Fantastic book, fantastic lessons

Very much enjoyed the book. I’m confident it will be a NYT Best Seller. Reads easy, but has as many applicable lessons as a text book. Recommend to anyone leading a team.