Reading rank 87
Driven: An Autobiography
, subject: Larry Miller's life, businesses, Utah Jazz ownership, and regrets about family and health
Miller's operating intensity builds a remarkable collection of businesses while exposing the cost of treating every hour as expandable.
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Coverage Score
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Scored evidence
About the book
The autobiography follows Miller's appetite for work, rapid dealmaking, and operating discipline while confronting the costs that relentless expansion imposed on his health and family.
Why read it
Best if you want a source-grounded account of ambition, operating choices, and their consequences
Key themes
- Ambition
- Operating choices
- Costs and limits
Evidence and original sources
This record is supported by 36 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Christian Dior — David uses Driven's Jerry Sloan account to argue that strong hires should be allowed to run the team or business they were hired to lead.
- Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man — David draws a management theme from Driven about letting top performers run their own team.
- Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) — David introduces this as the book the episode is built around.
- Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising) — David points back to Episode 168 and applies Larry Miller's time-and-motion learning practice.
- Jim Casey (Founder of UPS) — David identifies Episode 168 as Larry Miller's autobiography and uses its route and time-and-motion example.
- Napoleon — David identifies Larry Miller's book as episode 168.
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