Play Nice But Win A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader

The one that I really want you to read is Play Nice But Win, a CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader.

I love the title. I want to dive into the book a bit later, but I want to start off with asking you a question that I've been asking a lot of people recently because I think there's something beautiful about learning about this.

I talk about this in the book and the kind of struggle that I had with that and with my parents.

And I talk about that in the book as well.

And it wouldn't feel right to win if I had cheated or done it in an unscrupulous way.

one book that really spoke to me recently was michael dell's biography have you read it no i haven't it's the title is i will now though it's play nice but win and just the story of dell and how he went about building that business i think is so in my eyes like in parallel i read it when i was doing the program yeah in parallel with the program in so many ways of just like his consistent dedication to greatness and like showing up day in and day out and like focusing on winning the day right like he was i think 1920 21 years old when he started dell right and he's in this whole new world of computers and he's competing with these massive corporations and he was just so focused on like winning the day with his team and i think if i was just give a book recommendation that i read during the program that impacted me was michael dell's biography and then i think of course how to win friends and influence people

I'm supposed to believe that Carl Icon's wife cooks meatloaf

the way he he talked about his son was was particularly disturbing to me because you know as a father

PBNS is please but never satisfied or sometimes please but not satisfied

continuous improvement uh is important and complacency kills

when you're succeeding it can be really intoxicating and also very dangerous because your brain kind of turns off right