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Books like Principles
The best books like Principles are Good to Great, The Effective Executive, and Dare to Lead. Principles by Ray Dalio is about leadership, decision-making, organizational culture. 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 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.
Shares leadership and decision-making with Principles.
Read the summary → - Dare to Lead
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Brené Brown · Business
Dare to Lead is Brené Brown's application of her research on vulnerability and courage to the specific context of leadership.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Principles.
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- The Advantage
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Patrick Lencioni · Business
The Advantage is Patrick Lencioni's argument that organizational health — not strategy, technology, or talent — is the single greatest advantage a company can have.
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 leadership and organizational culture with Principles.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Principles.
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 leadership and organizational culture with Principles.
Read the summary → - Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn · Business
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture introduces the Competing Values Framework, a model Cameron and Quinn developed at the University of Michigan for assessing and intentionally changing organizational culture.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Principles.
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 Principles.
Read the summary → - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
Harvard Business Review · Business
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is an anthology collecting some of the most cited Harvard Business Review articles on feedback, including pieces by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, and others.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Principles.
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.
Shares leadership and decision-making with Principles.
Read the summary → - Humble Inquiry
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Edgar H. Schein · Business
Humble Inquiry is Edgar Schein's argument that the most important communication skill in leadership is the ability to ask questions in a genuinely curious, non-manipulative way — and that most organizational cultures systematically undervalue this skill in favor of telling, which creates problems both for individual relationships and for organizational safety and learning.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Principles.
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Books like Principles: quick answers
What are the best books like Principles?
The best books like Principles by Ray Dalio are Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni, 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 Principles, such as leadership, decision-making, organizational culture.
What should I read after Principles?
A natural next read after Principles is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni.
What books are similar to Principles by Ray Dalio?
Principles centers on leadership, decision-making, organizational culture. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
