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Books like Leading
The best books like Leading are High Output Management, The Score Takes Care of Itself, and Trillion Dollar Coach. Leading by Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz is about leadership, team building, management. 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.
- 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 management with Leading.
Read the summary → - The Score Takes Care of Itself
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh · Business
The Score Takes Care of Itself is the account of Bill Walsh's leadership philosophy, assembled from his writings and interviews by Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh after Walsh's death in 2007.
Shares leadership and performance culture with Leading.
Read the summary → - Trillion Dollar Coach
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Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle · Business
Trillion Dollar Coach is a tribute to Bill Campbell, the former football coach and Columbia University athletic director who became the most influential executive coach in Silicon Valley — coaching Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Bezos, and the co-founders of Google, among others.
Shares leadership and team building with Leading.
Read the summary → - First, Break All the Rules
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Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman · Business
First, Break All the Rules is the result of Gallup's analysis of interviews with more than 80,000 managers across a variety of industries, aimed at identifying what distinguishes the best managers from the rest.
Both dig into management.
Read the summary → - Legacy
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James Kerr · Business
Legacy is James Kerr's examination of how the New Zealand All Blacks became the most successful sports team in history and what that success reveals about leadership, culture, and purpose.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - The CEO Next Door
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Elena Botelho and Kim Powell · Business
The CEO Next Door is Elena Botelho and Kim Powell's data-driven portrait of what separates successful CEOs from unsuccessful ones.
Shares leadership and management with Leading.
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.
Shares leadership and management with Leading.
Read the summary → - The Making of a Manager
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Julie Zhuo · Business
The Making of a Manager is Julie Zhuo's account of what it actually means to manage people, written from her experience going from individual contributor to VP of Design at Facebook in her twenties.
Shares leadership and team building with Leading.
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 leadership and management with Leading.
Read the summary → - Good Authority
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Jonathan Raymond · Business
Good Authority is Jonathan Raymond's argument that the real job of a manager is not to produce results directly but to use the work as a vehicle for people's personal and professional development.
Shares leadership and management with Leading.
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 decision-making with Leading.
Read the summary → - It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a direct challenge to the mythology of startup hustle — the idea that long hours, constant urgency, and full-company stress are signs of ambition rather than poor management.
Shares leadership and management with Leading.
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Books like Leading: quick answers
What are the best books like Leading?
The best books like Leading by Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Legacy by James Kerr, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Leading, such as leadership, team building, management.
What should I read after Leading?
A natural next read after Leading is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Shares leadership and management with Leading. Other strong choices are The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.
What books are similar to Leading by Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz?
Leading centers on leadership, team building, management. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Legacy by James Kerr, The CEO Next Door by Elena Botelho and Kim Powell — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
