Books like Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

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Good to Great

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.

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Start with Why

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.

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel · Business

Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.

A kindred business read.

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink · Psychology

Drive is Daniel Pink's argument that the motivational model most organizations still run on — reward the behavior you want, punish the behavior you don't — is badly mismatched to the kind of work that matters most in a modern economy.

A kindred business read.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey · Self-help

Stephen R.

A kindred business read.

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Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

Frank Slootman · Business

Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.

Shares organizational culture and leadership with Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business

Creativity, Inc.

Shares organizational culture and leadership with Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

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Dare to Lead

Brené Brown · Business

Dare to Lead is Brené Brown's application of her research on vulnerability and courage to the specific context of leadership.

Shares organizational culture and leadership with Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

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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 organizational culture and leadership with Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback

Harvard Business Review · Business

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is an anthology collecting some of the most cited Harvard Business Review articles on feedback, including pieces by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, and others.

Shares organizational culture and leadership with Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

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Humble Inquiry

Edgar H. Schein · Business

Humble Inquiry is Edgar Schein's argument that the most important communication skill in leadership is the ability to ask questions in a genuinely curious, non-manipulative way — and that most organizational cultures systematically undervalue this skill in favor of telling, which creates problems both for individual relationships and for organizational safety and learning.

Shares organizational culture and leadership with Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

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Humble Leadership

Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein · Business

Humble Leadership is Edgar Schein and Peter Schein's argument that the command-and-control model of management is failing precisely when organizations need it most.

Shares organizational culture and leadership with Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.