How to Lead

Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

By: David M. Rubenstein

Narrated by: David M. Rubenstein

Includes live audio recordings!

The New York Times best seller

Number one Wall Street Journal best seller

The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers.

For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein - author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, and host of The David Rubenstein Show - has spoken with the world’s highest performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. How to Lead distills these revealing conversations into an indispensable leadership guidebook.

Gain advice and wisdom from CEOs, presidents, founders, and master performers from the worlds of finance (Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Christine Lagarde, Ken Griffin), tech (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook), entertainment (Oprah Winfrey, Lorne Michaels, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma), sports (Jack Nicklaus, Adam Silver, Coach K, Phil Knight), government (President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nancy Pelosi), and many others.

• Jeff Bezos harnesses the power of wandering, discovering that his best decisions have been made with heart and intuition, rather than analysis.
• Richard Branson never goes into a venture looking to make a profit. He aims to make the best in field.
• Phil Knight views Nike as a marketing company whose product is its most important marketing tool.
• Marillyn Hewson, who grew up in a fatherless home with four siblings in Kansas, quickly learned the importance of self-reliance and the value of a dollar.

How to Lead shares the extraordinary stories of these pioneering agents of change. Discover how each luminary got started and how they handle decision making, failure, innovation, change, and crisis. Learn from their decades of experience as pioneers in their field. No two leaders are the same.

©2020 David M. Rubenstein. Interviews in this book originally appeared on The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations. Used by permission of Bloomberg News. The introduction to the interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci was originally published in USA Today on March 22, 2020. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Great listen

Enjoyed hearing similar messages of constant learning, preserverence, growth, collaboration and struggle from some of the greatest of all time in their particular field.

Great idea for a book

Love it. youbwillntoo. Take you time to hear it they. Towards the end I was wanting at the be done. Interviewer was spot on. He know what to do and how to do it.

Interesting Interviews

I enjoyed listening to this audiobook, and highly recommend it. It’s more a collection of interesting interviews of high achievers, many of whom are great leaders, more than a study of how to lead. It’s about billionaire interviewing other billionaires and millionaires, with a few observations on leadership.

The conclusion is consistent with other studies of successful people and great leaders. They come from a variety of backgrounds and all have a unique way of leading. Success comes from a combination of luck, hard work, luck, perseverance, luck, leadership, luck, great ideas, luck, risk taking, luck, drive, and luck. There is no secret to success, really.

It’s in There..

😳 More Apex Performers Interviewed in one place than you can imagine !!🤯 Tip: every question is not geared towards leadership but if you pay attention to the whole thing you leave with real insight about leading!! Definitely a multiple listen!!

Great easy listen with a wealth of info

Great book. Like a short story format with all the greatest thought leaders in various industries. Theres some nuggets of info for all. Highly recommended.

Excellent

I learned so much and feel inspired by the thoughtful, candid interviews. Thanks for sharing.

My favorite type of content

What makes this so useful and powerful is the fact that nobody is interpreting their stories for us.

David asks the right questions and we get to hear their honest takes and whatever resonates with us resonates with us.

Thank you David for your work in making the journeys of so many accessible.

A wonderful book

A great book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found this book to be highly intelligent and highly relatable. I found great relation with the author and I further highly recommend this book.

Thoughtful perspectives from a diverse group of leaders

The leaders picked represented a diverse cross section of industries, ethnicities, and gender backgrounds. The books inclusivity made me not only feel included as a minority but also allowed me to connect with individuals’ experiences similar to mine inspiring me to dream big, think outside the box, and know that only the sky is my limit.

An excellent book!

Wow!! One of the best audiobooks I’ve heard

Very interesting from the very beginning! I couldn’t stop listening. I re-listened to almost every one. Each leading perspective is very unique and interesting. I would recommend to everyone.