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Books like Accelerate
The best books like Accelerate are Team of Teams, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and High Output Management. Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim is about software delivery, organizational performance, devops. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Team of Teams
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Stanley McChrystal · Business
Team of Teams is General Stanley McChrystal's account of how he restructured the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq to fight an enemy — Al-Qaeda in Iraq — that was organized in ways the conventional military hierarchy was too slow to counter.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - High Output Management
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.
Both dig into leadership.
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- Good to Great
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Jim Collins · Business
Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Execution
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Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan · Business
Execution is Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan's argument that the biggest gap in business is not strategy but implementation.
Shares organizational performance and leadership with Accelerate.
Read the summary → - Measure What Matters
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John Doerr · Business
Measure What Matters is John Doerr's account of Objectives and Key Results — the goal-setting framework he learned from Andy Grove at Intel, carried to Google in 1999, and has since deployed across hundreds of companies and nonprofits.
Shares organizational performance and leadership with Accelerate.
Read the summary → - The Lean Manager
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Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé · Business
The Lean Manager is a business novel that follows Andy Ward, a plant manager struggling to turn around a failing automotive components facility.
Shares continuous improvement and leadership with Accelerate.
Read the summary → - Who: The A Method for Hiring
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Geoff Smart and Randy Street · Business
Who is a short, methodical book about hiring — specifically about why most companies make the same predictable mistakes when choosing people, and how a structured process called the A Method can fix them.
Shares organizational performance and leadership with Accelerate.
Read the summary → - Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Frank Slootman · Business
Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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Marc Benioff · Business
Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business
Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Brave New Work
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Aaron Dignan · Business
Brave New Work is Aaron Dignan's diagnosis of why most organizations are dysfunctional and a practical guide to building something better.
Both dig into leadership.
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Books like Accelerate: quick answers
What are the best books like Accelerate?
The best books like Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim are Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Accelerate, such as software delivery, organizational performance, devops.
What should I read after Accelerate?
A natural next read after Accelerate is Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Good to Great by Jim Collins.
What books are similar to Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim?
Accelerate centers on software delivery, organizational performance, devops. Books with a similar feel include Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, Measure What Matters by John Doerr — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
