3 Books to Change How You Run Your Businesses
Read less, do more. Check out 3 books that changed how I run my businesses. Learn how Netflix built a company culture based on freedom, trust, and creativity, how to hire top performers, model openness to feedback, decentralize leadership, and more.
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Codie Sanchez
Investing millions in boring businesses & sharing what I learn. On a mission to create 1M financially free humans | My bio, not my tombstone, I hope it changes
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Read less, do more.
— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) April 13, 2023
3 books I’ve read recently that changed how I run my businesses: -
No Rules Rules
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by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
Concept:
Netflix built a company culture based on freedom, trust, and creativity – from top to bottom.
With this culture, they eliminated the need for “rules” and micromanaging. pic.twitter.com/IudLkQt6LI -
Actions:
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• Hire top performers only, cut those who don't thrive in the culture
• I (try to) model openness to feedback and challenges. Always be better
• Decentralize leadership wherever possible
• Say what I really think and never punish people for doing the same -
Pre-suasion
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by Robert Cialdini
Concept:
Attention is the most valuable commodity of the 21st century.
If you want to influence people, don’t change their minds. Shift their attention. pic.twitter.com/T80FzZ8PuY -
Actions:
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• When I want my teams’ opinions, I never give mine first
• Let the data/project/concept speak for itself when during feedback
• The content system = value, social proof, authority, consistency, scarcity -
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
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by Steven Pressfield
Concept:
Your writing is probably bad, and no one wants to read bad writing.
Real writers know it, wannabe writers don’t. Tips from a real writer on becoming a better one. pic.twitter.com/8Hgq8rdxkq -
Actions:
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• In my hold co? It MUST be boring. In my media co? It CAN’T be boring.
• No product without a clearly articulated concept first
• Turn experience into value (learning finance = teaching others, buying a biz = content, etc) -
What have you read recently that actually changed how you do things?
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