Top Cloud 100 CEOs answer rapid-fire questions about their favorite books, daily habits, and leadership traits. They recommend resilience, curiosity, and humility, with routines ranging from meditation and exercise to making breakfast and walking around the block.
One of my favorite must read books is called the Growth Handbook by Elad Gill.
The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey Jr.
I'm currently reading Punished by Rewards, which is a really interesting book about how we think about incenting the behaviors and the outcomes that we're looking for.
Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Five Dysfunctions of a Team at least for me, I figured out I had all five of them, but it's a it's a really useful book for building teams.
I really enjoyed reading Four Steps to Epiphany by Steve Blank.
Underrated is a book called Play Bigger, which is about how you define a market category.
I still love Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm.
Reading Bob Iger's book Ride of a Lifetime Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston I love Let My People Go Surfing, written by the founder of Patagonia.
My daily habit is to wake up and work out.
Probably feeding my cat in the morning.
I write down three things that I'm grateful for from the previous day.
Meditating for 10 to 15 minutes a day is a great daily habit. I don't hit it every day, but I'm better on all the days I.
Do Making a list. I love making breakfast for my kids in the morning. So it's a rotation of French toast, pancakes, oatmeal. Kind of keeps me grounded for the day ahead.
I need to lift something heavy.
I pretend to walk to the office. I brew coffee, I put it in a to go mug and I walk around the block. I get exercise early in the morning, outside every day.
I try to get to 20,000 steps a day.
At least 30 minutes of me time, whatever that is.
You know, be outside and enjoy the day.
I think as a founder, CEO, executive, you have to fire yourself every six months or a year and then write a job description for what the company requires at that point and see if he can meet that job.
Being able to throw things out no matter how much time or energy you've invested in them.
Curiosity, humility, intellectual honesty. The ability to deal with failure again and again.
You got to be resilient, listen and.
Be able to pivot.
Cheerleading others.
Communication. Storytelling. That's an easy one. Storytelling.
I think empathy is very underrated.
It should truly and genuinely value your people. If you trust them 100%, they will do great things for you.
