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Books like Beyond Entrepreneurship
The best books like Beyond Entrepreneurship are Good to Great, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier is about leadership, strategy, company building. 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.
- 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?
Shares leadership and strategy with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
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.
Read the summary → - Start with Why
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Simon Sinek · Business
Start with Why is Simon Sinek's argument that the most influential leaders and organizations in history didn't succeed because they made better products or ran smarter campaigns.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - That Will Never Work
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Marc Randolph · Business
That Will Never Work is Marc Randolph's memoir of co-founding Netflix with Reed Hastings, covering the period from the original idea in 1997 through the company's IPO in 2002.
Shares leadership and company building with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · Business
The Everything Store is Brad Stone's account of Amazon's founding and growth from a book retailer to one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Shares leadership and strategy with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - The Ride of a Lifetime
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Robert Iger · Business
The Ride of a Lifetime is Robert Iger's account of his fifteen years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, from his appointment in 2005 to his planned retirement in 2020.
Shares leadership and strategy with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
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.
Shares leadership and entrepreneurship with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Richard Rumelt · Business
Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.
Shares leadership and strategy with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker · Business
Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.
Shares strategy and entrepreneurship with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Loonshots
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Safi Bahcall · Business
Loonshots is physicist and biotech CEO Safi Bahcall's argument that the most transformative innovations — the kind he calls loonshots, after the eccentric northern bird — are fragile ideas that look foolish or impossible until they suddenly aren't, and that organizations systematically kill them long before they get a chance to prove themselves.
Shares leadership and strategy with Beyond Entrepreneurship.
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Books like Beyond Entrepreneurship: quick answers
What are the best books like Beyond Entrepreneurship?
The best books like Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier are Good to Great by Jim Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Beyond Entrepreneurship, such as leadership, strategy, company building.
What should I read after Beyond Entrepreneurship?
A natural next read after Beyond Entrepreneurship is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Shares leadership and strategy with Beyond Entrepreneurship. Other strong choices are Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove.
What books are similar to Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier?
Beyond Entrepreneurship centers on leadership, strategy, company building. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
