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Books like Escaping the Build Trap
The best books like Escaping the Build Trap are Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, and The Lean Startup. Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri is about product management, strategy, 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.
Both dig into product management.
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 product management and organizational design with Escaping the Build Trap.
Read the summary → - The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
A kindred business read.
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- 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.
A kindred business read.
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 strategy and organizational design with Escaping the Build Trap.
Read the summary → - Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley · Business
Playing to Win is Roger Martin and A.G.
Shares strategy and organizational design with Escaping the Build Trap.
Read the summary → - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish · Business
Scaling Up is Verne Harnish's update to his earlier Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, substantially revised and expanded to cover the full range of challenges a company faces as it grows from a small entrepreneurial team to a scaled organization.
Shares strategy and organizational design with Escaping the Build Trap.
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 → - 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 strategy.
Read the summary → - Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · Business
Blitzscaling is Reid Hoffman's argument that certain markets — primarily those with strong network effects and winner-take-most dynamics — reward companies that prioritize speed of growth over efficiency, even at the cost of significant operational risk.
Both dig into strategy.
Read the summary → - Blue Ocean Strategy
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W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne · Business
Blue Ocean Strategy is Kim and Mauborgne's case that the most successful companies don't compete in existing markets by beating rivals at their own game — they create new market spaces where competition is irrelevant.
Both dig into strategy.
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 organizational design.
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Books like Escaping the Build Trap: quick answers
What are the best books like Escaping the Build Trap?
The best books like Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri are Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Escaping the Build Trap, such as product management, strategy, organizational design.
What should I read after Escaping the Build Trap?
A natural next read after Escaping the Build Trap is Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan. Both dig into product management. Other strong choices are Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Measure What Matters by John Doerr.
What books are similar to Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri?
Escaping the Build Trap centers on product management, strategy, organizational design. Books with a similar feel include Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
