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How to lead: Wisdom from the world's greatest CEOs, founders, and game changers
David M. Rubenstein
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; illustrated edition
Published: 01 SEP 2020



Why do you want to be a leader?
First, it is because leaders can make changes or results that improve people's lives. Second, it is because leaders provide good motivation to people. Third, it is because leaders can feel a sense of accomplishment that gives them a sense of satisfaction and happiness.

David M. Rubenstein
What is the quality of being a leader?
1. Luck: I met a partner I could trust when I started my business with a chance to work in the White House.
2. Desire for success: willingness to create valuable goods and services that benefit others. I want to live a much more exciting and fulfilling life than my childhood.
3. Pursuing new originality: A leader wants to build or create something. Someone who goes on a path no one else has or is willing to go. The realization of the absurd idea of me setting up a private equity manager in Washington who has never worked on Wall Street.
Don't realize ideas that people liked.
4. Long hours of effort: not possible after working five days, 8 hours a week. Workaholic.
5. Focus: You should focus on mastering one skill or topic completely.
Expand your field after being proven professional and trustworthy.
6. FAILURE: Learning moment. Proving to be off track for a while. Another motivation.
7. Persistence: What you need when facing a backlash from people.
8. Persuasive: You can demonstrate great persuasion by performing basic ways of communicating: writing articles that inspire readers, saying things that motivate your audience, or practicing behaviors that others exemplify.
Follow someone who convinces them of the merits and validity of an opinion or action.
9. Humble attitude: effectively wins the respect of supporters.
10. Sharing the credit: Much more can be achieved.
11. Continuous Learning Ability: We need to broaden U.S.-Japan knowledge for brain training. Becoming a well-informed leader.
Six newspapers, ten weekly subscriptions, and one book a week. At least.
12. Integrity: It takes a lifetime to build a reputation, but five minutes is enough to break it down.
13. Crisis Response: This is when you need a leader. You are imprinted as a leader by being motivated and responding to risks.

- Visionaries: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Oprah Onefree, Warren Buffett.
- Fostering brothers: Phil Knight, Can Griffin, Robert F Smith, Jamie Dimon, and Marilyn Hewson.
- Innovators: Melinda Gates, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook, Ginni Rometti, Indra Nooyi.
- Leadership: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, David Petraeus, Condoleezza Rice, James A. Baker III
- Decision makers: Nancy Pelosi, Adam Silver, Christine Lagarde, Anthony S. Fauci, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- Goal achievers: Jack Nicklaus, Mike "Coach K" Szewski, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Ron Michaels.