Tell Me I’M Wrong – Hardcover

A leadership book from the CEO of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, distilling hundreds of podcast conversations with top CEOs, athletes and thinkers into one deeply human lesson.

He built his job around a question most leaders in his position stop asking: what if I’m wrong?

Nicolai Tangen manages roughly $2.3 trillion on behalf of five and a half million Norwegians – a fund that owns close to 1.5% of every listed company on earth. That position gets him a meeting with anyone. He turned it into a podcast. Across 280 episodes of In Good Company, he has interviewed Bob Iger, Jane Fraser, Mark Schneider, Magnus Carlsen, Susan Cain and hundreds more.

This book is what four years of listening taught him. Not a CEO memoir and not a management system, but a working leader’s field notes on what recurs when you ask the best people alive how they actually get others to perform. The answer is disarmingly simple and hard to execute: good leadership is about being human, and it starts with the sentence most senior people can no longer say out loud. I don’t know.