Summary of Ben Horowitz's What You Do Is Who You Are

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Ben Horowitz's What You Do Is Who You Are in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them—yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want?

To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638159384

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

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Insights from Chapter 5

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Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The only successful slave rebellion was led by Toussaint Louverture in Haiti, which eventually led to the island becoming an independent nation.

#2

The Haitian Revolution was a successful slave rebellion that changed the world by demonstrating that people of color could be leaders, not just followers, and could create a better life for themselves and their families without the permission of white people.

#3

The author, Ben Horowitz, explains the story of Toussaint Louverture, a black slave who helped lead the Haitian Revolution and become its first president.

#4

Toussaint Louverture was a black slave who rose to become one of the most powerful men in the Caribbean, and even defeated two European superpowers, the British and the Spanish, in his quest for independence.

#5

Louverture demonstrated that he could lead both black soldiers and white civilians to freedom. He also demonstrated that it was the culture of slavery, and not the nature of the slaves, that