What You Do Is Who You Are

How to Create Your Business Culture

Ben Horowitz examines how leaders create organizational culture through everyday decisions and behavior rather than statements of values alone. He draws lessons from Toussaint Louverture, Japanese samurai, Genghis Khan, and Shaka Senghor, then connects them to modern business cases. The book considers how hiring, rules, incentives, and responses to difficult situations shape shared expectations. Its central argument is that a company's identity emerges from what its people actually do.

by Ben Horowitz

HarperCollins Publishers · First published 2019 · 304 pages