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Books like Inside the Rise of HBO
The best books like Inside the Rise of HBO are Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention. Inside the Rise of HBO by Bill Mesce Jr. is about television history, media industry, creative risk-taking. 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.
- 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.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred history read.
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 organizational culture.
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?
A kindred history read.
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.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - An Everyone Culture
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Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey · Business
An Everyone Culture introduces what Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey call the Deliberately Developmental Organization — a company designed around the idea that the work of personal growth and the work of business performance are not separate activities but the same thing.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Dare to Lead
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Brené Brown · Business
Dare to Lead is Brené Brown's application of her research on vulnerability and courage to the specific context of leadership.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn · Business
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture introduces the Competing Values Framework, a model Cameron and Quinn developed at the University of Michigan for assessing and intentionally changing organizational culture.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
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Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
Ken Auletta · Business
Ken Auletta has been writing about media and power for the New Yorker since the 1990s, and Googled is his attempt to explain what Google did to the industries that preceded it.
Both dig into media industry.
Read the summary → - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
Harvard Business Review · Business
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is an anthology collecting some of the most cited Harvard Business Review articles on feedback, including pieces by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, and others.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Humble Inquiry
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Edgar H. Schein · Business
Humble Inquiry is Edgar Schein's argument that the most important communication skill in leadership is the ability to ask questions in a genuinely curious, non-manipulative way — and that most organizational cultures systematically undervalue this skill in favor of telling, which creates problems both for individual relationships and for organizational safety and learning.
Both dig into organizational culture.
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Books like Inside the Rise of HBO: quick answers
What are the best books like Inside the Rise of HBO?
The best books like Inside the Rise of HBO by Bill Mesce Jr. are Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Inside the Rise of HBO, such as television history, media industry, creative risk-taking.
What should I read after Inside the Rise of HBO?
A natural next read after Inside the Rise of HBO is Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace. Both dig into organizational culture. Other strong choices are The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Good to Great by Jim Collins.
What books are similar to Inside the Rise of HBO by Bill Mesce Jr.?
Inside the Rise of HBO centers on television history, media industry, creative risk-taking. Books with a similar feel include Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
