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What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

byBen Horowitz

Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz argues that culture is created by repeated actions, incentives, and difficult decisions rather than mission statements. Drawing on historical leaders, business founders, and his own operating experience, he examines how organizations teach people what matters through hiring, firing, standards, stories, and responses to crisis. Horowitz shows that a culture can be strong yet destructive if its virtues do not serve the organization's purpose. The book offers leaders a practical way to define desired behaviors, confront contradictions, and understand that what they tolerate and reward will shape identity more powerfully than what they say.

Publisher

HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780008356118