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Books like Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

12 books with a reading profile close to Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

    Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

    by Jim Collins

    Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, leadership

    Jim Collins and Jerry Porras compare eighteen enduring "visionary" corporations against a control group of similar competitors to identify why certain organizations thrive for decades.

  2. 2 Microsoft Secrets

    Microsoft Secrets

    by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby

    Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

    Michael A.

  3. 3 The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

    The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

    by Clayton M. Christensen

    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.

  4. 4 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

    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.

  5. 5 The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

    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.

  6. 6 The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

    The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

    by David Wallace-Wells

    Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, data driven

    David Wallace-Wells argues that climate change is occurring much faster and with more devastating consequences than current political discourse suggests.

  7. 7 Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

    Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

    by Geoffrey A. Moore

    Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

    Geoffrey A.

  8. 8 Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

    Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

    by W. Chan Kim

    Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

    W.

  9. 9 First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

    First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

    by Marcus Buckingham

    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.

  10. 10 Measure What Matters

    Measure What Matters

    by John Doerr

    Also outward-looking and growth-minded · leadership, business strategy

    John Doerr introduces the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework, a goal-setting system he encountered at Intel under Andy Grove and later brought to Google.

  11. 11 The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

    The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

    by Chris Anderson

    Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

    Chris Anderson explains the shift from a hit-driven culture to a niche-driven economy enabled by digital distribution.

  12. 12 The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

    The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

    by Peter M. Senge

    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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