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What You Do Is Who You Are
How do you create a culture that weathers both the good times and the bad? In his new book, Ben Horowitz—cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Hard Thing About Hard Things—combines lessons from history and modern organizational practice to help executives build and sustain the cultures they want.
The leader's guide to creating your business culture
In Ben Horowitz’s second book, What You Do Is Who You Are, the entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, addresses a question crucial to every organization: How do you create and sustain the culture you want?
To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions, and he explains how to make your culture purposeful by examining four intriguing models of leadership and culture-building well outside the usual business case studies: Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, who was the leader of the only successful slave revolt in history; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, an American ex-con who created the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture.
What You Do Is Who You Are takes readers on a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it aims to help readers do what they need to do to become the kind of leader they want to be—and others want to follow—and answers a question fundamental to any organization: Who are we?
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