Love Him or Hate Him Trumps Ten Commandments | With Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

About this episode

The episode explores leadership lessons from Donald Trump through a discussion with Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian about their book on Trump's leadership strategies.

What can we learn about leadership from someone as unconventional — and as consequential — as Donald Trump? In this week's Power & Impact , I sit down with a good friend of mine, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, and his colleague Steven Tian to discuss their new book, Trump's Ten Commandments: Strategic Lessons from the Trump Leadership Toolbox. Jeff leads the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at the Yale School of Management, where Steven serves as director of research. Jeff has spent decades studying leadership at the highest levels, and what I've long respected about his work is that it's grounded in curiosity and academic rigor. When I asked why he chose to take this on, his answer was straightforward: You can't understand leadership by studying only the leaders you admire. In the book, Jeff and Steven draw on years of research, CEO forums, and conversations with more than 50 insiders — from family members to senior advisers — to better understand how President Trump operates. What they've identified are 10 tools in Trump's leadership toolbox. They're the patterns he returns to when making decisions, commanding attention, and exercising influence. The goal of the book is to step…

People in this episode

Host: unknown host

Guests: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian

Topics covered

• leadership
• Donald Trump
• business strategy
• politics
• influence
• academic research

Keywords

• leadership
• Donald Trump
• Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
• Steven Tian
• business
• influence
• politics
• Ten Commandments

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Yale School of Management

Books & works: Trump's Ten Commandments: Strategic Lessons from the Trump Leadership Toolbox

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