Books like Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
12 books with a reading profile close to Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by Jim Collins
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, leadership
Jim Collins and his research team analyzed twenty-eight companies over five years to identify why certain organizations achieved elite financial performance while others stayed mediocre.
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Microsoft Secrets
by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Michael A.
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, leadership
Clayton Christensen explains why profitable, well-managed corporations lose their market dominance when faced with specific types of technological shifts.
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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
by Erin Meyer
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, leadership
Erin Meyer introduces a diagnostic system for navigating cultural differences through eight specific scales: communicating, evaluating, persuading, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing, and scheduling.
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Also outward-looking · analytical, leadership
Peter Senge argues that modern corporations fail because they cannot perceive the complex, hidden systems govern their operations.
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Moneyball
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, business strategy
Michael Lewis tracks the 2002 Oakland Athletics and their general manager, Billy Beane, as they attempt to compete against wealthy franchises on a restricted budget.
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · analytical, leadership
Getting to Yes introduces principled negotiation, a four-point strategy developed via the Harvard Negotiation Project.
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Thomas L.
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Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, data driven
Chris van Tulleken examines the rise of Ultra-Processed People (UPP) and the industrial manufacturing methods that create substances designed for overconsumption.
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · leadership, business strategy
Drawing on a massive Gallup study of over 80,000 managers, this book identifies four specific behaviors that separate high-performing supervisors from their peers.
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The Personal MBA
by Josh Kaufman
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Josh Kaufman argues that business competence depends on mastering a specific set of mental models rather than holding a graduate degree.
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, data driven
Jane Mayer tracks the decades-long evolution of a coordinated political network funded by ultraconservative billionaires, most notably Charles and David Koch.
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