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Books like Managing
The best books like Managing are High Output Management, Good to Great, and Execution. Managing by Harold Geneen is about management, leadership, business performance. 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 management and leadership with Managing.
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 leadership and corporate culture with Managing.
Read the summary → - Execution
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Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan · Business
Execution is Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan's argument that the biggest gap in business is not strategy but implementation.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - The Effective Executive
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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.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Measure What Matters
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John Doerr · Business
Measure What Matters is John Doerr's account of Objectives and Key Results — the goal-setting framework he learned from Andy Grove at Intel, carried to Google in 1999, and has since deployed across hundreds of companies and nonprofits.
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.
Shares management and leadership with Managing.
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 management and leadership with Managing.
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 management and leadership with Managing.
Read the summary → - Leading
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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.
Shares management and leadership with Managing.
Read the summary → - Management
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Peter F. Drucker · Business
Management is Peter Drucker's most comprehensive statement on what managers do, why organizations exist, and what separates effective management from the appearance of it.
Shares management and leadership with Managing.
Read the summary → - Management of Organizational Behavior
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Management of Organizational Behavior
Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard · Business
Management of Organizational Behavior is the textbook that introduced Situational Leadership Theory, the model that argues there is no single best leadership style — only styles that are more or less appropriate to the development level of the person being led.
Shares management and leadership with Managing.
Read the summary → - Multipliers
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Liz Wiseman · Business
Multipliers is Liz Wiseman's exploration of a striking leadership pattern: some leaders make the people around them smarter, more capable, and more engaged, while other leaders — often equally intelligent and well-intentioned — make the people around them dumber, more dependent, and less confident.
Shares management and leadership with Managing.
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Books like Managing: quick answers
What are the best books like Managing?
The best books like Managing by Harold Geneen are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Managing, such as management, leadership, business performance.
What should I read after Managing?
A natural next read after Managing is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Shares management and leadership with Managing. Other strong choices are Good to Great by Jim Collins, Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker.
What books are similar to Managing by Harold Geneen?
Managing centers on management, leadership, business performance. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
