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Books like The Effective Executive

The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker is about productivity, decision-making, time management. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. High Output Management
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    High Output Management

    Andrew S. Grove · Business

    High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.

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  2. Getting Things Done
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    Getting Things Done

    David Allen · Self-help

    Getting Things Done is David Allen's argument that the main source of stress in modern knowledge work isn't the volume of tasks — it's having commitments that live only in your head.

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  3. Deep Work
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    Deep Work

    Cal Newport · Self-help

    Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.

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  4. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    Greg McKeown · Self-help

    Essentialism is Greg McKeown's argument that the way most people approach work and life — saying yes to almost everything — is a slow form of defeat.

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  5. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

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    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

    Christopher Mayer · Business

    Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

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  6. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

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    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

    Hamilton Helmer · Business

    7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.

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