The Power Broker

This book by Robert Caro was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jim Collins. It comes up in conversations about motivation & discipline, productivity & performance. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Discusses the illusion that is a democracy by pointing out what real power looks like and where it comes from.

• “his book the power broker which i think you know i think is one of the great biographies now what's great about it”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i think is one of the great biographies”
  Jim Collins · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 202000:41:39

  Said during "Jim Collins on The Value of Small Gestures, Unseen Sources of Power, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Jim Collins: Researcher and teacher of what makes great companies endure, and a Socratic advisor to leaders. Author or co-author of six books (including Good to Great and Built to Last) that have sold more than 10 million copies. Jim Collins returns to discuss mentors, the power of small gestures, light vs. dark motivation, the Stockdale Paradox, and renewing over a lifetime.