Leadership Myths EXPOSED: What Management Books Don’t Teach You

11 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Leadership Myths EXPOSED: What Management Books Don’t Teach You" (posted 2026-01-11). The excerpt is a short dialogue between two unnamed speakers (SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) discussing leadership and management—emphasizing that people are the best investment, the need for strong leadership teams to build large companies, and that effective management style is learned through experience as well as reading books.

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Our best investment has always been people. By far, it has been people. To build a really big business, if you look at any company, whether it's Nvidia, Tesla, Netflix, even Walmart, even the ones like IBM that no one cares to talk about anymore, they have some really strong leaders, not just the CEO. Their leadership team is extremely strong.
It is hard to build businesses that are really large without having some amazing talent. And in order to build a great company, you have to learn how to get people to follow you. Because I would just say that in my 20s, I read like— sure, I have a lot of books behind me. I've read a lot of these management books and I will tell you, it really management style, leadership style kind of goes the spectrum, and there's no right or wrong way. And so all that to say is like, if you want to get the right people, you're going to have to learn your management style over time, not necessarily just rely on all these books, because that's certainly what I did in the beginning. Sure, read the books, but also gain experience.