Mind Your Own Business: A Maverick's Guide to Business, Leadership and Life
, subject: Sidney Harman, Harman International, and business leadership
A founder-operator's compact business autobiography that David rereads and recommends as a practical career guide.
About the book
First published in 2003, the autobiographical business guide moves between Harman's career and short chapters on leadership, finance, negotiation, marketing and sales, education, government, and the relationship between technology and business.
Why read it
Best if you want a first-person operator account mixing company-building with practical reflections on leadership, customers, technology, negotiation, and culture
Key themes
- Lead as catalyst
- Technology serves the customer
- Guard the company's soul
Evidence and original sources
David praises the book's density of insight and urges listeners to buy it.
- Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon) — David connects the book's hard-work theme to Founders' recently released episode on Michael Bloomberg.
- Alexander the Great — David identifies Sidney Harman and Founders #229 while discussing compressed learning and late-life knowledge transfer.
- Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story) — Notes Sidney Harman's autobiography was covered on Founders episode 229.
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