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Books like The Age of Agile
The best books like The Age of Agile are An Elegant Puzzle, Good to Great, and Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. The Age of Agile by Stephen Denning is about agile, organizational transformation, customer-centricity. 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.
- 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.
A kindred business read.
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?
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · Business
Blitzscaling is Reid Hoffman's argument that certain markets — primarily those with strong network effects and winner-take-most dynamics — reward companies that prioritize speed of growth over efficiency, even at the cost of significant operational risk.
A kindred business read.
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- 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 → - 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 → - 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 innovation with The Age of Agile.
Read the summary → - 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 leadership and innovation with The Age of Agile.
Read the summary → - Leading Change
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John P. Kotter · Business
Leading Change is John Kotter's synthesis of his research on organizational transformation, organized around an eight-stage process for successfully executing major change.
Shares organizational transformation and leadership with The Age of Agile.
Read the summary → - Loonshots
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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.
Shares leadership and innovation with The Age of Agile.
Read the summary → - No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer · Business
No Rules Rules is Reed Hastings's account of the management philosophy that has governed Netflix since the company pivoted from DVDs to streaming and built one of the most watched entertainment platforms in the world.
Shares leadership and innovation with The Age of Agile.
Read the summary → - Superbosses
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Sydney Finkelstein · Business
Superbosses is Sydney Finkelstein's study of a specific type of leader — one whose primary legacy is not what they built but who they developed.
Shares leadership and innovation with The Age of Agile.
Read the summary → - The Art of the Start 2.0
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Guy Kawasaki · Business
The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's updated guide to launching a company, product, or movement.
Shares leadership and innovation with The Age of Agile.
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Books like The Age of Agile: quick answers
What are the best books like The Age of Agile?
The best books like The Age of Agile by Stephen Denning are An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Age of Agile, such as agile, organizational transformation, customer-centricity.
What should I read after The Age of Agile?
A natural next read after The Age of Agile is An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are Good to Great by Jim Collins, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.
What books are similar to The Age of Agile by Stephen Denning?
The Age of Agile centers on agile, organizational transformation, customer-centricity. Books with a similar feel include An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
