7 Great Books to read when making difficult decision

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

• Good to Great by Jim Collins

Disciplined thoughts, action (execution) confronting brutal facts. Placing the right person in place

One week executive can destroy executive

• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

There are are urgent activities confronting executive. What truly matters now.?

Focus is needed. Asking what the situation needs

• The 77 Laws of Great Leaders by Phon Piseth

Management enters the architecture of power and authority. (what happens when people start looking

at the leader. Judged also on emotional weight of the authority. If they hesitate. Weakened by

wrong delivery. Authority is not merely exercise of power Can people move despite decision. People are sensitive to signals. Emotional architecture under pressure

Silence carries enermous authority. (Many words strike differently) Defending early too many words

weakens the executive

• Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

Execution follows meeting KISFREK Who now owns the decision

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Disasgreements : how do they affect decisions. Do you want comfort or clarity after disagreements

Talk about Abraham LIncoln on how he navigaged disagreeements

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

• The Outsiders by William Thorndike

Long horizon thinking, delayed decisions. Capex Quiet decisions not noisy decisions.

Live with strong leaders.

Fortunate to have read 3 of the 7 books in my life as a businessman