Sequoia's Mike Moritz on Leading From a Camel
A Saturday's NY Times
article on the reading habits of CEOs features Sequoia venture guy Mike Moritz. He isn't really a CEO, of course, but he is apparently a serious bibliophile -- albeit one who doesn't read business books.
“I try to vary my reading diet and ensure that I read more fiction than nonfiction,†Mr. Moritz said. “I rarely read business books, except for Andy Grove’s ‘Swimming Across,’ which has nothing to do with business but describes the emotional foundation of a remarkable man. I re-read from time to time T. E. Lawrence’s ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom,’ an
exquisite lyric of derring-do, the navigation of strange places and the imaginative ruses of a peculiar character. It has to be the best book ever written about leading people from atop a camel.â€
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