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Books like Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The best books like Good Strategy Bad Strategy are Competitive Strategy, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, and Blue Ocean Strategy. Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt is about strategy, leadership, competition. 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.
- Competitive Strategy
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Michael E. Porter · Business
Competitive Strategy is Michael Porter's foundational framework for analyzing industries and developing competitive strategy.
Shares strategy and competition with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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 competition with Good Strategy Bad 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.
Shares strategy and competition with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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- The Innovator's Dilemma
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Art of War
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Sun Tzu · Philosophy
The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a general and strategist believed to have lived in the fifth century BCE.
Shares strategy and leadership with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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.
Shares strategy and leadership with Good Strategy Bad 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.
Shares leadership and organizational design with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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 leadership and organizational design with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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 strategy and organizational design with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
Read the summary → - 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?
Shares strategy and leadership with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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 Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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.
Shares leadership and decision-making with Good Strategy Bad Strategy.
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Books like Good Strategy Bad Strategy: quick answers
What are the best books like Good Strategy Bad Strategy?
The best books like Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt are Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Good Strategy Bad Strategy, such as strategy, leadership, competition.
What should I read after Good Strategy Bad Strategy?
A natural next read after Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter. Shares strategy and competition with Good Strategy Bad Strategy. Other strong choices are Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen.
What books are similar to Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt?
Good Strategy Bad Strategy centers on strategy, leadership, competition. Books with a similar feel include Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by Roger L. Martin and A.G. Lafley, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
