Mentor Profile

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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs
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Bill Gates

Bill Gates
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Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz
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Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett
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Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg
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William Campbell

William Campbell
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Mark Zukerberg

Mark Zukerberg
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Marissa Myers

Marissa Myers
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Advice

Browse compelling advice from many of the world's top influencers that's both informative and motivating.

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Anne Mulcahy

My experience at Xerox has taught me that crisis is a very powerful motivator. It forces you to make choices that you probably wouldn't have made otherwise. It intensifies your focus, your competitiveness, your relentless desire to attain best-in-class status. I want to do everything I can to make sure that we don't lose that now that we're back on track.
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Anne Mulcahy

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
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Steve Jobs

Jobs encouraged Page to get rid of everything in Google that wasnt working, and focus on the things that make Google great, like search.
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Sheryl Sandberg

Instead of telling people, "Get a mentor and you will excel," we should be telling them, "Excel and you will find a mentor."
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Sheryl Sandberg

When proteges reach a position of power, they can both "pay it back" by helping their mentor when needed and "pay it forward" by helping others.
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Sheryl Sandberg

True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Books

Learn and improve your skills as a leader, find out what the most successful entrepreneurs on the planet are currently reading or recommending for reading.

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined


By:Steven Pinker

A provocative history of violence?from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank SlateBelieve it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steve...
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History


By:Elizabeth Kolbert

Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impac...
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The Man Who Fed the World


By:Leon Hesser

Dr. Norman Borlaug, one of the world's greatest heroes, is the most highly-decorated individual of our time. He is credited with saving over a billion people from Starvation. Dr. Borlaug is only one of five people in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Con...
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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street


By:John Brooks

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety...
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life


By:Nick Lane

The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically re...
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Zero to One


By:Peter Thiel

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that ...