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Books like Setting the Table
The best books like Setting the Table are Good to Great, The Culture Code, and Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Setting the Table by Danny Meyer is about hospitality, service culture, 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.
- 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 Culture Code
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Daniel Coyle · Business
The Culture Code is Daniel Coyle's investigation into what separates exceptional team cultures from average ones.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · Memoir
Kitchen Confidential began as an essay in The New Yorker in 1999.
A kindred business read.
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 → - 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.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
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Books like Setting the Table: quick answers
What are the best books like Setting the Table?
The best books like Setting the Table by Danny Meyer are Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Setting the Table, such as hospitality, service culture, leadership.
What should I read after Setting the Table?
A natural next read after Setting the Table is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.
What books are similar to Setting the Table by Danny Meyer?
Setting the Table centers on hospitality, service culture, leadership. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, 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.
