Trillion Dollar Coach, Eric Schmidt title: Organisationen #13: Trillion Dollar Coach, Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg Jonathan Rosenberg
(back to books)
- Substrat: a great coach makes others successful
- power of coaching: ability to offer different perspective, unaffected by being “in the game.”
- simple practices add up to a strong operation
- being an executive is all about creating operational excellence (and vision)
- have long-term success by instilling strong operational discipline in short term
- CEO manages the board and board meetings, not the other way around;
first agenda item are operational updates: the board needs to know how the company is doing
- Bill usually did not take compensation for his work as a coach
- mentors vs. coaches: mentors dole out words of wisdom, coaches get their hands dirty
- effective coach works with entire team; only coach the coachable
- best coach for any team is team manager
- order of coaching sessions
- (not so) small talk; performance (what are you working on? how can I help?); peer relationships;
teams (are we setting a clear direction for them?); innovation (are we making space for it?
how are we balancing tension between innovation and execution?); Bill was well prepared
- coaching principles
- listen, observe, fill communication/understanding gaps between people
- identify the biggest problem ("elephant in the room") and tackle it first
- elephant spotter: team can’t have honest conversation about a topic
- an important component of providing candid feedback is not to wait
- be a doer: show up, work hard, have an impact every day
- protect people with most vision and passion
- peer relationships and feedback are critical and often overlooked
- never put up with people who cross ethical lines: lying, lapses of integrity or ethics, harassing or mistreating colleagues
- if you’re in, be in - don't have one foot in and one out
- be the shadow - be heard but not the one in front
- things we all care about and that are factors in any business situation: love, family, money, attention, power, meaning, purpose
- 2012 study showed that in video game industry strong middle management accounted for 22 percent of revenue variance,
game creative design 7 percent
- when things are getting "political", it often means problems have arisen because data or process hasn’t led to best decision