All In, Robert Bruce Shaw
All In, Robert Bruce Shaw
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All In
How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary

Author: Robert Bruce Shaw

Narrator: Mark Smeby

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

Extraordinary leaders share a passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders and sometimes crosses the line into obsession. All In shows why obsession, if properly focused and managed, is both necessary and productive.Advances in any endeavor almost always depend on a small group of individuals who are completely consumed by the goal they're pursuing. When these leaders and teams are successful, everyone benefits from their obsessive nature.This book?explores the three obsessions underlying the achievements of the greatest leaders: delighting customers, building great products, and creating an enduring company. Author Robert Bruce Shaw takes you inside the success stories of iconic leaders and shows the upside of obsession plus the practices that support it, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Steve Jobs of Apple.In All In, Shaw teaches you why:Amazon's first principle is customer obsession and the behaviors that sustain it as the firm becomes one of the largest in the world.Tesla puts products at the center of everything it does and the leadership approach that created a revolutionary electric car.Steve Jobs' greatest creation was not the Mac or iPhone but Apple the company. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???? Shaw also provides insight into the dark side of obsession and its destructive potential - as vividly illustrated in his case study of Uber's aggressive pursuit of growth during the tenure of CEO Travis Kalanick.Appealing to any reader of entrepreneurial biographies, All In shows individuals, teams and organizations how to manage obsession's downsides while realizing the benefits of relentlessly seeking to create something that truly matters.

About Robert Bruce Shaw

Robert Bruce Shaw helps business leaders build companies and teams capable of superior performance. He holds a PhD in organizational behavior from Yale University and is the author of highly regarded books on leadership and organizational culture.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vidit on March 15, 2021

Few people achieve world-class success without obsessive commitment to a single goal. Though obsession is a powerful force for achievement, it becomes a double-edged sword. Grit has no negative side effects; obsession does. At Amazon, Jeff Bezos demands obsession with customer service. Elon Musk’s obses......more

Goodreads review by Rick on June 24, 2022

Weird, mostly useless framing about how “obsession” supposedly “makes” people successful. As with most of these, survivorship bias and the necessity to hash and rehash mostly known concepts with a new framing permeates. This also unfortunately reduces the amount of useful information to something ap......more

Goodreads review by ronnie on January 23, 2021

Great read - that author talks about the obsessive nature of innovators like Steve Jobs, Elson Musk, etc. He covers both the positive and negative results that come from that obsession and how to balance it out.......more

Goodreads review by Pulkit on September 10, 2022

Robert gave considerable attention to listicles on pros and cons of obsession at work and in work culture through the lens of examples, primarily from founders of Uber, Amazon, Tesla and Apple, along with a few others on the side. However the book fails to offer conclusions, leave everything as 'two......more

Goodreads review by Neelam on January 29, 2023

An insightful book providing leadership insights on how three of the major businesses namely Amazon, Uber and Apple brought their founders to being revolutionaries that challenged the status quo and upturned the economy. Through their stories we learn what sets them apart and what we can learn from......more