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Books like Execution
The best books like Execution are Good to Great, High Output Management, and Measure What Matters. Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan is about execution, leadership, strategy implementation. 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 → - 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 → - 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.
Shares leadership and organizational performance with Execution.
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- The Leadership Pipeline
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Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel · Business
The Leadership Pipeline describes a framework for how leaders develop through six distinct career passages, each requiring a fundamental shift in time application, work values, and skill requirements.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Multipliers
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Liz Wiseman · Business
Multipliers is Liz Wiseman's exploration of a striking leadership pattern: some leaders make the people around them smarter, more capable, and more engaged, while other leaders — often equally intelligent and well-intentioned — make the people around them dumber, more dependent, and less confident.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Accelerate
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Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim · Business
Accelerate is the research-backed account of what actually makes software delivery teams fast without sacrificing stability.
Shares leadership and organizational performance with Execution.
Read the summary → - Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Frank Slootman · Business
Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.
Shares execution and leadership with Execution.
Read the summary → - The Way of the Shepherd
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Kevin Leman and William Pentak · Business
The Way of the Shepherd is a short leadership parable by Kevin Leman and William Pentak that uses the metaphor of shepherding to articulate seven principles of people leadership.
Shares leadership and people management with Execution.
Read the summary → - Who: The A Method for Hiring
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Geoff Smart and Randy Street · Business
Who is a short, methodical book about hiring — specifically about why most companies make the same predictable mistakes when choosing people, and how a structured process called the A Method can fix them.
Shares leadership and organizational performance with Execution.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
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 leadership.
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 leadership.
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Books like Execution: quick answers
What are the best books like Execution?
The best books like Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan are Good to Great by Jim Collins, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Execution, such as execution, leadership, strategy implementation.
What should I read after Execution?
A natural next read after Execution is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel.
What books are similar to Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan?
Execution centers on execution, leadership, strategy implementation. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
