Play Nice But Win by Michael Dell Book Review
Want to be an entrepreneur? Want to build a multi-billion dollar startup company? But the path is very challenging, right? At this time I must suggest you to read this book-”Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader” in 2022. It will blow your mind by giving you very precious lessons- How to survive in the battle of entrepreneurship journey.
About The Book: Play Nice But Win
Play Nice But Win is basically a biographical business book and Wall Street Journal bestseller. We all know about Dell Technologies Inc. which is one of the largest multinational technological companies in America. Michael S. Dell is the founder and proud CEO of Dell company. The book is all about the inside story of the battles that established him as a great leader in the technological business world.
Book Name: Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
Publish Date: The book is published on October 5, 2021.
Authors: Michael Dell and James Kaplan are the authors of the book.
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Business, Leadership, Autobiography
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Edition Number: 1
ISBN: 9780593087749
Total Pages: 336
Size: 23.8 x 16.2 x 3.18 (cm)
Weight: 0.59 kgs
Language: English
Play Nice But Win book summary
On January 3, 2006 Michael Dell Michael’s first book, Direct from Dell, was published which is a great story of the nuts and bolts of Dell. But “Play Nice But Win” is much more inside of his head and at times emotional about his journey with Dell Technologies.
Awaited college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his starter PC business in the bathroom of his University of Texas dorm room in 1984. Almost 30 years later, at the peak of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself entangled in a battle for his company's survival. What will be the next planning to come out from it- could he ensure its legacy or destroy it completely?
Play Nice But Win is an appealing story of the three battles executed for Dell Technologies: 1) to launch it, 2) to keep it, and 3) to transform it. In this book Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's transformation among a fast changing industry besides his own growth of maturation as a CEO when it was needed. The important thing is, he calls back the mentors who taught him how to turn his passion into a business; the competitors who became friends, opponents, or both; and the enemies who were looking for weakness. What comes out is the long-term vision boosting his success: that sooner or later technology is about people and their prospects.
Play Nice But Win is a survival story and an honest portrait of a leader proving that while anyone with technological perception and entrepreneurial passion might build something great--it makes a leader possible to build something powerful and supreme.
Play Nice But Win book review
Play Nice But Win is a great piece of art from the founder of Dell which describes a true history of battle in the technological business world. Many CEOs, founder and great personalities gives valuable review about the book and the founder of the Dell Company.
Former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo and author of My Life in Full, Indra Nooyi, defined Michael as a rare leader who make a successful company by his long-term planning, direction and innovative strategy logically. Play Nice But Win is a book which make a strong belief and courage to change any organization positively.
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz review this book as an unbelievable window where published a founder challenging and difficult time to grow a company. He honored Michael as a great innovator as well as a great leader.
Another great leader Bill Gates also praised about this book and suggested the focusing entrepreneurs to read the insights of this book. Bill Gates also described about the success story of Michael how he established a large tech company.
Many readers gave positive reviews about this book on Amazon, Goodreads and other platforms. Reading this book I can say it's a great masterpiece. This book is a perfect example of how corporate and personal identity mixes up in a journey for greatness. Michael Dell is an amazing founder or CEO and in this book he shares a lot of the barricade faces. The chronicle of the Carl Icahn saga is splendid and his judgment and ethics towards the whole history are a lesson to us.
If you are a good reader you can find out some key lessons from every book. Play Nice But Win is a very inspirational book which will also teach you some key lessons. Here is a great article to know about the key lessons you can learn from Michael Dell's "Play Nice But Win".
To see the price of the book you can visit amazon and the funny thing is I am waiting for a decent Netflix movie on the biography of Michael Dell based on this book.