Books like The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
12 books with a reading profile close to The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, business strategy
Bill Palmer, a newly promoted IT manager at Parts Unlimited, faces a corporate disaster as the Phoenix Project—a critical software initiative—spirals into delays and budget overruns.
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, business strategy
Jessica Livingston presents a collection of raw, first-person interviews with the creators of influential technology firms like Apple, Microsoft, and Flickr.
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Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
by Will Guidara
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, business strategy
Will Guidara chronicles his experience as the co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, detailing how the restaurant transitioned from a standard fine-dining establishment to the top-ranked restaurant in the world.
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, business strategy
Chip Heath and Dan Heath argue that memorable ideas share six specific traits, organized under the SUCCES acronym: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories.
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, business strategy
Geoffrey A.
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · business strategy, narrative
John Carreyrou chronicles the rise and collapse of Theranos, a biotech firm led by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed to revolutionize blood testing through proprietary Edison devices.
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, business strategy
W.
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Business Model Generation
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, business strategy
Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur present a structural framework for designing, testing, and implementing business strategies through the Business Model Canvas.
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · business strategy, narrative
Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the day-by-day mechanics of the 2008 financial collapse, focusing on the frantic negotiations between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, and the chief e…
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, business strategy
David Allen argues that professional inefficiency stems from using the brain as a storage device for unfinished tasks rather than a processing tool for ideas.
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter Thiel
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, business strategy
Peter Thiel argues that progress comes in two forms: horizontal globalization, which copies existing successes (going from 1 to n), and vertical technology, which creates something entirely new (going from 0 to 1).
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · practical, narrative
Samin Nosrat identifies four fundamental pillars that dictate whether food tastes balanced or dull.
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