What You Do Is Who You Are

by Ben Horowitz

A great compendium of historical lessons on how to establish a top culture in a startup. It contains multiple amazing examples of how relevant the culture has been historically on great teams and how that allowed truly relevant feats such as what Genghis Khan was able to achieve all through the world. It all started with how he treated his soldiers and what he expected from them. It also gives some great basis on how to create a culture and it also establishes what most important in my opinion. That a culture is never done. It is something that will continue to mutate as it is what people will be doing and that changes with time and circumstances. It doesn't matter if you're not trying to found a startup just yet. Some knowledge there can be applied to the personal level as well, at least I did.

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