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Books like Loonshots
The best books like Loonshots are The Innovator's Dilemma, Good to Great, and The Lean Startup. Loonshots by Safi Bahcall is about innovation, organizational behavior, strategy. 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 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.
Both dig into innovation.
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 Loonshots.
Read the summary → - The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
Both dig into innovation.
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 → - 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.
Shares innovation and strategy with Loonshots.
Read the summary → - The Ride of a Lifetime
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Robert Iger · Business
The Ride of a Lifetime is Robert Iger's account of his fifteen years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, from his appointment in 2005 to his planned retirement in 2020.
Shares innovation and strategy with Loonshots.
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 Loonshots.
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 innovation and strategy with Loonshots.
Read the summary → - Competing Against Luck
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.
Shares innovation and strategy with Loonshots.
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 innovation and leadership with Loonshots.
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 innovation and leadership with Loonshots.
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Books like Loonshots: quick answers
What are the best books like Loonshots?
The best books like Loonshots by Safi Bahcall are The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Loonshots, such as innovation, organizational behavior, strategy.
What should I read after Loonshots?
A natural next read after Loonshots is The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. Both dig into innovation. Other strong choices are Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.
What books are similar to Loonshots by Safi Bahcall?
Loonshots centers on innovation, organizational behavior, strategy. Books with a similar feel include The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
