George S. Patton
U.S. Army General who commanded the Third Army across France and into Germany in WWII. Studied Napoleon and Sun Tzu in childhood, kept a war diary that read like prophecy, warned about Soviet Russia weeks before VE Day. The mythology around him is half-true; the writing is real. Read him for discipline and will divorced from ego.
Jim Rohn
American philosopher of personal development who mentored Tony Robbins and a generation after him. Speaks like a small-town businessman because he was one — Idaho farm kid, sold himself out of poverty, then taught the seasons-of-life frame and the law-of-averages discipline that still anchors the field.
The Power Broker — Robert Caro
Robert Moses built and unbuilt New York for forty years. Caro's biography is a 1,200-page study of how one curator of power, with no elected office, shaped the physical and political fabric of a city. Read it for what attention to detail looks like at the scale of a lifetime — and what curation costs when applied without conscience.
Young Presidents' Organization ✦ FRQNCY PICK
Global peer-to-peer network for chief executives — admission gated on running a company that's already at scale, not on signalling. Forum format: small confidential groups that meet monthly, structured to make the loneliest job a little less lonely. 30,000+ members across 142 countries.
Entrepreneurship
Starting things — finding a real problem, shipping a first version, an…
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Business models that put mission first — companies designed to serve p…
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The early company — venture-scale risk, the hunt for product-market fi…
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