(2019-04-29) Cagan The Greatest Coach

Martin Cagan: The Greatest Coach. I realized that there was something very significant in common between so many of the companies I consider consistently strong in product

The founders – in particular, Steve Jobs of Apple, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon – during their company’s formative years, were all coached by the same person, Bill Campbell (known as “The Coach of Silicon Valley”)

interviewed many of the other people he coached, and put together a book of his leadership principles called Trillion Dollar Coach.

I consider this the single best book for those responsible for managing people in the technology industry – especially if you manage product managers – and I strongly encourage you to read it.

“The purpose of a company is to bring a product vision to life. All the other components are in service to product.”

“Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”