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Books like Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
The best books like Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products are Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Continuous Discovery Habits, and Measure What Matters. Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones is about product management, leadership, organizational design. 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.
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
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Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan · Business
Inspired is Marty Cagan's guide to how the best technology companies build products that customers actually want.
Shares product management and innovation with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
Read the summary → - Continuous Discovery Habits
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Teresa Torres · Business
Continuous Discovery Habits is Teresa Torres's practical guide to making product discovery a sustainable, weekly team practice rather than a periodic research event.
Shares product management and innovation with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
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- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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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.
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Read the summary → - Radical Candor
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Kim Scott · Business
Radical Candor is Kim Scott's framework for the central management challenge: how to tell people what they need to hear without damaging the relationship.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson · Biography
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs was authorized by Jobs himself, who gave Isaacson more than forty hours of interviews and opened up his family, friends, and colleagues to the same scrutiny.
Shares leadership and innovation with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
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.
Shares leadership and organizational design with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
Read the summary → - Escaping the Build Trap
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Melissa Perri · Business
Escaping the Build Trap is Melissa Perri's diagnosis of why product organizations ship constantly but rarely deliver real value, and her prescription for how to change that pattern.
Shares product management and organizational design with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
Read the summary → - Exponential Organizations
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Salim Ismail · Business
Exponential Organizations is Salim Ismail's framework for understanding why some companies — Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, Google — grew ten times faster than their peers and why traditional organizations struggle to match that pace.
Shares organizational design and innovation with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
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 organizational design with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
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 leadership and organizational design with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
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 innovation with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
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Books like Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products: quick answers
What are the best books like Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products?
The best books like Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones are Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan, Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, such as product management, leadership, organizational design.
What should I read after Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products?
A natural next read after Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products is Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan. Shares product management and innovation with Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products. Other strong choices are Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace.
What books are similar to Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones?
Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products centers on product management, leadership, organizational design. Books with a similar feel include Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan, Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
