From the library
Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle, 2019
In one paragraph
Lessons from legendary coach Bill Campbell on building high‑trust teams, giving candid feedback with care, and creating environments where people and performance thrive together.
Where this sits in the operating system
People & Relationships
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
Continuous Improvement & Feedback Loops
Key insights
Campbell coached the team, not the individuals, and treated the team as the unit that succeeds or fails.
Trust first: candour is only survivable inside a relationship where the person knows you are on their side.
The book is affectionate to the point of hagiography. The practices survive the tone.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Coaching only in crisis
Vague expectations
Hero culture
Low candor
Values as posters
The same idea, argued differently
Julie Zhuo
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Verne Harnish
Andrew Grove
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
- Published
- 2019
- Category
- Business
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