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Books like Team of Teams
The best books like Team of Teams are Turn the Ship Around!, Extreme Ownership, and An Elegant Puzzle. Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal is about organizational design, leadership, adaptability. 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.
- Turn the Ship Around!
- Extreme Ownership
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Jocko Willink and Leif Babin · Business
Extreme Ownership is former Navy SEAL commanders Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's argument that the single most important principle in leadership is taking total responsibility for everything that happens under your command — not just your own actions but your team's performance, your mission's failure, and the behavior of those above you when it doesn't support your mission.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - An Elegant Puzzle
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Will Larson · Business
An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.
Both dig into organizational design.
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- 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 organizational design and leadership with Team of Teams.
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.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Team of Teams.
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 organizational design and leadership with Team of Teams.
Read the summary → - High Growth Handbook
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Elad Gil · Business
High Growth Handbook is Elad Gil's guide to the operational and organizational challenges that arise once a startup has found product-market fit and needs to scale from dozens of employees to hundreds or thousands.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Team of Teams.
Read the summary → - My Years with General Motors
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Alfred P. Sloan · Business
Alfred Sloan's account of his four decades building General Motors is one of the most influential management books ever written, though it reads less like a book and more like a carefully constructed argument.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Team of Teams.
Read the summary → - Reinventing Organizations
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Frédéric Laloux · Business
Reinventing Organizations is Frédéric Laloux's attempt to map the next stage of organizational development.
Shares organizational design and leadership with Team of Teams.
Read the summary → - The Art of War
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Sun Tzu · Philosophy
The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a general and strategist believed to have lived in the fifth century BCE.
Shares leadership and adaptability with Team of Teams.
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.
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Books like Team of Teams: quick answers
What are the best books like Team of Teams?
The best books like Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal are Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Team of Teams, such as organizational design, leadership, adaptability.
What should I read after Team of Teams?
A natural next read after Team of Teams is Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones.
What books are similar to Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal?
Team of Teams centers on organizational design, leadership, adaptability. Books with a similar feel include Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
