Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2019-06-06
Books mentioned on How To Master The Art Of Collaboration | Reid Hoffman Ep. 207
Jordan Harbinger discussed The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman and others, THE ALLIANCE by Reid Hoffman and others, and The prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Reid Hoffman discussed Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Start-up of You
The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha is a career guide that applies entrepreneurial strategies and startup thinking to professional development.
Discussed“so this is the first book we'll start up you second book is the Alliance”
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THE ALLIANCE
THE ALLIANCE by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh, and Miguel Marqués Muñoz is a business book that reframes the employer-employee relationship around the concept of tours of duty in the modern startup era.
Discussed“we developed the idea of the Jedi tours of duty along with his book the Alliance he says there are three different tours of duty rotational transformational and foundational”
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The prince
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli is a classic 16th-century political treatise offering a pragmatic, unflinching guide on how political power is acquired, maintained, and wielded.
Discussed“so I definitely can identify with that last but not least you've mentioned that you would eventually someday maybe like to rewrite Machiavelli the prince for modern day Silicon Valley what would some of the big changes be from that book”
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Discourses on Livy
Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli is a foundational work of political philosophy that examines the mechanics of republican government, institutional stability, and the historical lessons of the Roman Empire.
Discussed“now part of my interest in doing that is to not just take like Machiavelli's The Prince the discourses are kind of the textbook of sociopathic no morals matter part of my interests in rewriting”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so my very first book was called the start-up of you and part of what I was trying to do is to give people how to say yes”
“so my very first book was called the start-up of you and part of what I was trying to do is to give people how to say yes your passion is important but you should be paying attention to market realities”
“and this is again from like my book startup view I have this framework called abz planning which is your plan a your plans B which is how to think about like well if a is not working out maybe B will work”
“I think it's good to always like in the starter view we have this concept permanent beta which is you're always learning you're always changing”
“second book is the Alliance as part of what I was writing about in the Alliance and part of it was it's no longer career ladder”
“the important thing and this is part of the Alliance in the book was to say actually in fact staying synched and being being forthright and being well allied with the companies you're at with the managers you're working with”
“yes so right so the real politique with a moral compass exactly i'm looking forward to that book someday”