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Books like Management

The best books like Management are High Output Management, The Effective Executive, and Good to Great. Management by Peter F. Drucker is about management, organizations, 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.

  1. High Output Management
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    High Output Management

    Andrew S. Grove · Business

    High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.

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  2. The Effective Executive
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    The Effective Executive

    Peter F. Drucker · Business

    The Effective Executive is Peter Drucker's 1967 argument that effectiveness — getting the right things done — is a discipline that can be learned, and that it is the most important capability a knowledge worker can develop.

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  3. Good to Great
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    Good to Great

    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?

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  1. The Making of a Manager
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    The Making of a Manager

    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.

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  2. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
    Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

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    Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

    Frank Slootman · Business

    Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.

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  3. Beyond Entrepreneurship
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    Beyond Entrepreneurship

    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.

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  4. Good Authority
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    Good Authority

    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.

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  5. Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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    Good Strategy Bad Strategy

    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.

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  6. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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    Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Peter F. Drucker · Business

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.

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  7. 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.

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  8. Leading
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    Leading

    Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz · Business

    Leading is Sir Alex Ferguson's account of what he learned managing Manchester United for twenty-seven years, written with Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz.

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  9. Loonshots
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    Loonshots

    Safi Bahcall · Business

    Loonshots is physicist and biotech CEO Safi Bahcall's argument that the most transformative innovations — the kind he calls loonshots, after the eccentric northern bird — are fragile ideas that look foolish or impossible until they suddenly aren't, and that organizations systematically kill them long before they get a chance to prove themselves.

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Books like Management: quick answers

What are the best books like Management?

The best books like Management by Peter F. Drucker are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, 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 Management, such as management, organizations, leadership.

What should I read after Management?

A natural next read after Management is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Shares management and leadership with Management. Other strong choices are The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo.

What books are similar to Management by Peter F. Drucker?

Management centers on management, organizations, leadership. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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