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Books like Lessons from the Titans
The best books like Lessons from the Titans are Good to Great, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, and High Output Management. Lessons from the Titans by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland & Rob Wertheimer is about industrial management, corporate turnaround, operational excellence. 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 → - The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
William N. Thorndike · Business
The Outsiders profiles eight CEOs whose long-term returns to shareholders dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 and their industry peers, often by factors of ten to one hundred.
Both dig into capital allocation.
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 → - Only the Paranoid Survive
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
Only the Paranoid Survive is Andrew Grove's account of how he understood and navigated the most dangerous moments in a company's life — what he calls strategic inflection points.
Both dig into leadership.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
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100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
Christopher Mayer · Business
Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.
Both dig into capital allocation.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
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 leadership.
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.
Read the summary → - Build
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Tony Fadell · Business
Tony Fadell was the engineer who built the iPod, the executive who led the team that created the original iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the thermostat company he sold to Google for $3.2 billion.
Both dig into leadership.
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Books like Lessons from the Titans: quick answers
What are the best books like Lessons from the Titans?
The best books like Lessons from the Titans by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland & Rob Wertheimer are Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Lessons from the Titans, such as industrial management, corporate turnaround, operational excellence.
What should I read after Lessons from the Titans?
A natural next read after Lessons from the Titans is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove.
What books are similar to Lessons from the Titans by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland & Rob Wertheimer?
Lessons from the Titans centers on industrial management, corporate turnaround, operational excellence. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them by Christopher Mayer — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
