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Books like High Growth Handbook
The best books like High Growth Handbook are The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, and High Output Management. High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil is about scaling, startups, leadership. 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.
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.
Shares startups and leadership with High Growth Handbook.
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 startups.
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.
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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.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer · Business
No Rules Rules is Reed Hastings's account of the management philosophy that has governed Netflix since the company pivoted from DVDs to streaming and built one of the most watched entertainment platforms in the world.
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.
Shares leadership and organizational design with High Growth Handbook.
Read the summary → - 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.
Shares startups and leadership with High Growth Handbook.
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 High Growth Handbook.
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 scaling and organizational design with High Growth Handbook.
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 High Growth Handbook.
Read the summary → - My Years with General Motors
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Alfred P. Sloan · Business
Alfred Sloan's account of his four decades building General Motors is one of the most influential management books ever written, though it reads less like a book and more like a carefully constructed argument.
Shares leadership and organizational design with High Growth Handbook.
Read the summary → - Reinventing Organizations
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Frédéric Laloux · Business
Reinventing Organizations is Frédéric Laloux's attempt to map the next stage of organizational development.
Shares leadership and organizational design with High Growth Handbook.
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Books like High Growth Handbook: quick answers
What are the best books like High Growth Handbook?
The best books like High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil are The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with High Growth Handbook, such as scaling, startups, leadership.
What should I read after High Growth Handbook?
A natural next read after High Growth Handbook is The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Shares startups and leadership with High Growth Handbook. Other strong choices are Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Measure What Matters by John Doerr.
What books are similar to High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil?
High Growth Handbook centers on scaling, startups, leadership. Books with a similar feel include The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
