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Books like Brave New Work
The best books like Brave New Work are Good to Great, An Elegant Puzzle, and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan is about organizational design, self-management, culture change. 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?
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - An Elegant Puzzle
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Will Larson · Business
An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.
Both dig into organizational design.
Read the summary → - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni · Business
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is Patrick Lencioni's argument that most teams fail not because of strategy, talent, or resources, but because of five specific, predictable behavioral problems that compound on each other.
Both dig into leadership.
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- 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 → - Reinventing Organizations
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Frédéric Laloux · Business
Reinventing Organizations is Frédéric Laloux's attempt to map the next stage of organizational development.
Shares organizational design and self-management with Brave New Work.
Read the summary → - Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn · Business
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture introduces the Competing Values Framework, a model Cameron and Quinn developed at the University of Michigan for assessing and intentionally changing organizational culture.
Shares culture change and leadership with Brave New Work.
Read the summary → - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones · Business
Empowered is Marty Cagan and Chris Jones's guide to what separates product organizations that consistently build products people love from those that operate as feature factories.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Brave New Work.
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 organizational design and leadership with Brave New Work.
Read the summary → - High Growth Handbook
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Elad Gil · Business
High Growth Handbook is Elad Gil's guide to the operational and organizational challenges that arise once a startup has found product-market fit and needs to scale from dozens of employees to hundreds or thousands.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Brave New Work.
Read the summary → - My Years with General Motors
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Alfred P. Sloan · Business
Alfred Sloan's account of his four decades building General Motors is one of the most influential management books ever written, though it reads less like a book and more like a carefully constructed argument.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Brave New Work.
Read the summary → - 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.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Brave New Work.
Read the summary → - The Clarity Principle
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Chatham Sullivan · Business
The Clarity Principle argues that the most important task of leadership is not strategy, culture, or execution — it's achieving clarity about what your organization actually is and what it is trying to do.
Shares culture change and leadership with Brave New Work.
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Books like Brave New Work: quick answers
What are the best books like Brave New Work?
The best books like Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan are Good to Great by Jim Collins, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Brave New Work, such as organizational design, self-management, culture change.
What should I read after Brave New Work?
A natural next read after Brave New Work is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Start with Why by Simon Sinek.
What books are similar to Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan?
Brave New Work centers on organizational design, self-management, culture change. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux, Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture by Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
